David R. Inglis

David Robert Inglis is a contemporary sociologist and academic.

Education and career

Inglis earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Cambridge and then went on to complete his Master's and PhD in sociology at the University of York.^[1][2][3]

He has been a sociology professor at the University of Helsinki since 2017. He was previously a sociology professor at the University of Exeter and the University of Aberdeen.^[2]

He was a founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology, and headed the Finnish Sociological Association, the Westermarck Society, from 2020 through 2022.^[1][4]

Books

Inglis is the author or coauthor of books including:

• A Sociological History of Excretory Experience: Defecatory Manners and Toiletry Technologies (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001)
• Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2005)^[5]
• The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study (with John Hughson and Marcus Free, Routledge, 2005)^[6]
• An Invitation to Social Theory (with Christopher Thorpe, Polity Press, 2012)^[7]

His edited volumes include:

• The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)^[8]
• The Globalization of Food (Berg, 2009),^[9]
• The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology (SAGE, 2016)
• The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (Routledge, 2018).^[10]
• Drinks in Vogue: Exploring the Changing Worlds of Fashions and Beverages (Routledge, 2023)