Essays On The History Of British Sociological Research

Author : Martin Bulmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521254779
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of British Sociological Research written by Martin Bulmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-02-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of British sociology and empirical social research over the past hundred years. Concludes with a discussion of the applications of the research including the use of social surveys for policymaking and the success of social science in predicting the future.

Author : Plamena Panayotova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030199290
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Sociology in Britain written by Plamena Panayotova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, the history of British Sociology has been a neglected area of study among sociologists. In more recent times, there are signs of a growing curiosity among British sociologists about their subject’s origins and development. This collection sets out both to encourage and satisfy that curiosity while recognising the value of history as a teaching tool that can be used to inspire young sociology students and furnish them with a deeper understanding of the development of British sociology. The volume contains essays by distinguished sociologists and historians who discuss British sociology’s controversial origins, the neglected legacies of several individuals and institutions, the history of how the discipline was taught in the UK throughout the twentieth century, and its peculiar relationships with statistics and the humanities. The History of Sociology in Britain reveals the distinct character of British sociology through the course of its historical evolution. It is an original contribution and valuable addition to the field which intersects with historiography, epistemology and literature.

Author : Philip Abrams
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of British Sociology, 1834-1914 written by Philip Abrams and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeniffer Platt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134282265
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociological History of the British Sociological Association written by Jeniffer Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the development of sociology in Britain told through the story of its learned society, The British Sociological Association. Learned societies have been neglected in the history of the discipline, though they are a vital part of the social structure of academic life. The BSA has had its internal dynamics, but it has also been affected by external factors relevant to wider academic life, which range from government policies to the rise of feminism. These have had an important effect on all the social sciences, but their impact upon sociology has been particularly marked. The first two chapters of the book give a general historical overview, starting with the range of predecessor organisations, and going on to how the BSA came to be founded, the major changes in educational policy and structures which have formed much of the context for its activities, and how it has, in response to both internal and external pressures, changed over time. Against that background, the remaining chapters look in more analytical detail at particular issues across the whole time-span. These include the role of the BSA in the intellectual life of the discipline, the nature of the membership and activists, the role of feminism, case studies of key issues of controversy and politics arising from individual cases, and consideration of how the association has been run and its relationship with other organisations such as the International Sociological Association and the ESRC (a key government funding body). The book concludes with an overview of the history of the BSA and its role as a professional association. The book will be of interest to sociologists, and to others interested in the history and sociology of the social sciences and the professions.

Author : Philip Abrams (sociologue.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of British Sociology written by Philip Abrams (sociologue.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. H. Halsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199266603
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Sociology in Britain written by A. H. Halsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this text presents a critical history of sociology in Britain, a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion, fragmentation and explosion of the discipline during the past century.

Author : Yoke-Sum Wong
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444309714
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology written by Yoke-Sum Wong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty years the Journal of HistoricalSociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. Theseessays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists,anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of theJHS. Volume 1 focuses on the British state, Volume 2 on thejournal’s wider interdisciplinary challenges. The first in a two-volume anthology representing the bestarticles published in The Journal of Historical Sociologyover the last twenty years. Includes essays, debates and responses written byinternationally distinguished historians, sociologists,anthropologists and geographers as well as by pioneering newerscholars have been influential in challenging and redefining thefield of historical sociology. Spans a range of issues and topics that combine rich empiricalscholarship with sophisticated theoretical engagement, bringingtogether the very best of the JHS. A collection of essays on state formation from medieval timesto the present, focussing mainly on the British state.

Author : Philip Abrams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226001708
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of British Sociology, 1834-1914 written by Philip Abrams and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569449
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870 written by Lawrence Goldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual history of British welfare since the concept first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The essays divide into four sections. The first considers the transition from laissez-faire to social liberalism from the 1870s, and the enduring impact of late-Victorian philosophical idealism on the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the moral philosophy of T. H. Green and his influence on key figures in the history of British social policy like William Beveridge, R. H. Tawney, and William Temple. The second section is devoted to the concept of 'planning' which was once, in the mid-twentieth century, at the heart of social policy and its implementation, but which has subsequently fallen out of favour. A third section examines the intellectual debate over the welfare state since its creation in the 1940s. Though a consensus seemed to have emerged during the Second World War over the desirability and scope of a welfare state extending 'from the cradle to the grave', libertarian and conservative critiques endured and re-emerged a generation later. A final section examines social policy and its implementation more recently, both at grass roots level in a study of community action in West London in the districts made infamous by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, and at a systemic level where different models of welfare provision are shown to be in uneasy co-existence today. The collection is a tribute to Jose Harris, emeritus professor of history in the University of Oxford and a pioneer of the intellectual history of social policy. Taken together, these essays conduct the reader through the key phases and debates in the history of British welfare.

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045437
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton History of the Human Sciences written by Roger Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the human sciences -- psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science -- from their precursors in early human culture to the present.This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.