Fiona DevineCBEFAcSS (born 6 June 1962)[1] is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and vice-president and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.[2]
Devine is best known for sociology writings about a new model of class structures: seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a Precariat at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website BBC Lab UK on the Great British Class Survey.[4] More generally Devine specialises in social stratification and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family.[5] She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.[6]
Devine, Fiona (2004), "Talking about class in Britain", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (eds.), Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp.191–213, ISBN9780631226857.
