Margaret Archer

Professor Margaret Archer

Centre for Social Ontology 2011-13, Centre for Social Ontology 2014-16

Centre for Social Ontology – EPFL

With Kate Forbes-Pitt & Ismael Al-Amoudi

The project’s main theoretical aim was to conceptualise a nascent but unique transformation of the social order towards ‘Morphogenesis Unbound’.

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Centre for Social Ontology – University of Warwick

With Ismael Al-Amoudi

The Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) was established in 2011 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where Professor Margaret Archer was ISRF Chair in Social Theory 2011-2013. Following a move to the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, its main focus was the Morphogenetic Project.

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Research outcomes

Archer, M. S. (Ed.). (2017).

Morphogenesis and human flourishing. Dordrecht: Springer.

Archer, M. S. (Ed.). (2016).

Morphogenesis and the Crisis of Normativity. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Archer, M. S. (Ed.). (2015).

Generative mechanisms transforming the social order. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Archer, M. (Ed.). (2014).

Late modernity. Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society. Springer.

Archer, M. S. (Ed.). (2013).

Social Morphogenesis. Springer Netherlands.

Areas of interest

Sociology Social Ontology Morphogenesis

Cohort

Centre for Social Ontology Centre for Social Ontology

Biography

Professor Margaret Archer was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She founded the Centre for Social Ontology in 2011 at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She led the Centre as its Director until 2017 and then as its General Editor. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association (1986 – 1990) and was appointed by Pope Francis as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2014 – 2019). She was a founder member of both the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. She also was a member and trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism from its inception.

Biographical details correct as of 15.04.26