Salvador Giner, after graduating in law, he studied sociology in Cologne. Master and PhD in sociology and social theory at the University of Chicago. Graduate studies at Cambridge. He taught at the English universities of Reading, Lancaster and West London (Brunel), where he was Director of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He has taught at the Universities of Rome, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Valencia (Venezuela) and the Sorbonne.
Professor at the University of Barcelona since 1989, also was at the University Pompeu Fabra. Presidión founded and the Spanish Federation of Sociology. Co-founder of the European Sociological Association. He directed the Institute for Advanced Social Studies, CSIC. He led International Journal of Sociology. Co-founder of the European Journal of Sociology. From 2005 until today, chairs the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, academy of sciences and the humanities.
Salvador Giner is one of the most important sociologists and representative of the social and moral philosophy in Spain. In addition to his many macrosociological empirical studies, is reputed author of works on the dynamics of civil society, democracy, citizenship and the evolution of ethics, many translated into several languages​​. Among which excels the same treaty, his two books on the history of sociological theory, Dictionary of Sociology, Mass Society and his recent Origin of the Moral.