Mike Savage

Identities and Social Change in Britain Since 1940

The Politics of Method

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Produktbeschreibung

Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 draws extensively on archived qualitative social science data to offer a unique, personal, and challenging account of post war social change in Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780199587667
• ISBN-10: 0199587663
• Artikelnr.: 31891342

Autorenporträt

Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he is Director of the ESRC's Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). He has written extensively on social change in Britain after 1945 notably in Class Analysis and Social Transformation (2000) and in Globalisation and Belonging (with Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst, 2005)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1: 2005 to 1938: Lifting social groups out of the landscape.
art I: Technical Identities and Social Change
2: 1938: The British intellectual and high-brow culture
3: 1954: The challenge of technical identity
4: 1950: The resurgence of gentlemanly expertise in post-war Britain.
5: 1962: The moment of sociology
PART II: The Social Science Apparatus
6: 1956: The end of community: the quest for the English Middletown
7: 1951: The interview and the melodrama of social mobility
8: 1941: The sample survey and the modern rational nation
PART III: Technique and Expertise
9: 2009: The Politics of Method
References
Appendix: Details of Archival Sources consulted