David McCrone
Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity (Edinburgh UP, 2025), with a long career studying Scottish society, politics, and national identity.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 1h 49min
David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
David McCrone, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, reflects on five decades of Scotland’s social and political shifts. He discusses changing migration patterns, the loosening of the wartime-welfare bond, evolving class identity after deindustrialization, the referendum decade’s effect on political alignments, and how civil society shapes national belonging.
