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David Lyon directs the Surveillance Studies Centre, is a Professor of Sociology, holds a Queen’s Research Chair and is cross-appointed as a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Best known internationally for his work in Surveillance Studies, and for concepts he has developed, such as "social sorting," Lyon also teaches and researches in the areas of information society, globalization, secularization, and postmodernity. He is co-editor of the journal ''Surveillance & Society'', Associate Editor of ''The Information Society'' and is on the international editorial board of a number of other academic journals. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technology Section in 2007 and an Outstanding Contribution Award from Canadian Sociological Association in 2012. From 2008-2010 Lyon was a Killam Research Fellow, the highest fellowship awarded by the Canada Council. He has held visiting appointments in a number of universities including Auckland, Edinburgh, Leeds, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, the Centre for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyon received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in social science and history at the University of Bradford in Yorkshire, UK, during which he became interested in the driving forces behind and social consequences of some major transformations of the modern world. == Sociology and Religion == Lyon’s dissertation focused on the historical sociology of belief-change in Victorian England and his early work explored the mutual relations of Christian social thought and the social sciences in works such as ''Karl Marx: A Christian Appreciation of his Life and Thought'' (1979) and ''Sociology and the Human Image'' (1983). ''The Steeple’s Shadow: On the Myths and Realities of Secularization'' (1986), questioned theories which suggest that religious belief and practice decline with the coming of modernity. Locally, he wrote a parish study of St James’ Anglican church, Kingston; ''Living Stones'' (1995). ''Jesus in Disneyland'' (2000) investigated the ways in which religious activities are affected by the so-called postmodern turn, and the co-edited (with Marguerite Van Die) ''Rethinking Church, State and Modernity: Canada between Europe and America'' (2000) examined the question from the perspective of political sociology. More recently, Lyon has contributed to the debate over the “post-secular” (for example ("Being post-secular in the social sciences: Charles Taylor’s social imaginaries” ) ''New Blackfriars'', 91: 648-662, 2010). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Lyon (sociologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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