<prompt> Ngwala go tšwela pele ka serapa se - John Harald Westergaard o belegwe ka October 13, 1927 kua Putney, London, e le ngwana wa Otto le Inger Westergaard; batswadi ba gagwe e be e le ma-Denmark gomme tatagwe e be e le moentšeneare wa tša meago. Ka 1938, ge batswadi ba gagwe ba be ba le kgaufsi le go hlalana, Westergaard o ile a hudugela Denmark le mmagwe gomme a romelwa sekolong sa bodula-barutwana kua Copenhagen; diphihlelo tša gagwe ka tlase ga pušo ya Nazi  <response>: go kgomarelana ga mmagwe le mokgatlo wa kganetšo wa Denmark nakong ya Ntwa ya II ya Lefase go ile gwa kgothaletša go ganetša taolo le go dumela go bo-socialism. O ile a šoma ka nakwana e le mohlahlobi wa tša bohlabani wa British Army of the Rhine gomme ka morago a fetša degree ya thutotšhomo ya London School of Economics LSE, a aloga ka 1951. E be e le monyakišiši wa Ruth Glass kua University College London, pele a hudugela Yunibesithing ya Nottingham ka ngwaga wa 195556. Ka morago o ile a boela LSE bjalo ka morutiši, gomme a hwetša tlhatlošo go ba mmadi ka go thuto ya tša leago ka 1970. Ka 1975, o ile a kgethwa bjalo ka mohlatlami wa Keith Kelsall go ba Modulasetulo wa Dithuto tša Sociological ka Yunibesithing ya Sheffield. O ile a rola modiro ka 1986 ka baka la go fokotšwa ga ditšhelete le go fokotšega ga palo ya barutwana, e lego seo se ilego sa dira gore thuto ya tša leago e kgaotše go rutwa kua Sheffield. Go rola modiro ga gagwe pele ga nako - le ga Eric Sainsbury Mothuša-modulasetulo wa Taolo ya tša Leago - go dirilwe go kgonthišetša gore bašomi ba banyenyane ga ba lahlegelwe ke mešomo ya bona. Ka nako e swanago, gape e be e le Motlatša-Mohlankedimogolo le Mohlankedimogolo wa Lefapha la Dithutamahlale a Leago kua Sheffield magareng ga 1982 le 1986. Ka morago ga go rola modiro, o ile a dula a tswalane le yunibesithi bjalo ka moprofesara yo a hlomphegago; o ile a ba a swara mešomo ya go etela le go šoma bjalo ka mopresidente wa British Sociological Association go tloga ka 1991 go fihla ka 1993. Gape e be e le Academician ya Academy of Social Sciences. 