Walter Bryce Gallie (1912 - 1998) was a British social theorist, political scientist and philosopher. 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ...

Gallie grew up in a British boarding school and later published his memoirs of this in the book An English School. His other well-known works include Philosophy and the Historical Understanding, (1964), Philosophers of War and Peace (1978 by Oxford University Press), and Wanted: A Philosophy of International Relations (1979). A boarding school is a self-contained educational establishment where students not only study but where some or all students may live. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...