Change in British society: Based on the Reith lectures

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Halsey, A.H.

Oxford University Press

In this new edition, the distinguished sociologist A.H. Halsey analyzes the direction British society has taken in this century. New material is included on what the consequences of Mrs. Thatcher's Britain have been for liberty, equality, social cohesion, and conflict.

Change in British Society (O P U S)

History

Australia & Oceania

Change in British society: Based on the Reith Lectures (Open University set book)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

In this lucidly argued book, A. H. Halsey offers a provocative analysis of the direction which British Society has taken this century. He points to changes involving class and status, social and geographical mobility, standards of living, and the family, and explains how these changes have been affected by patterns of economic growth, liberal and Marxist theories, and the power of the state. This new and fully revised edition covers the whole of Margaret Thatcher's period as Primer Minister, and its aftermath in the premiership of John Major. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the whole system of the Second World War has ended. Halsey considers the implications of these events, and asks what their effects have been on liberty, equality, social cohesion, and conflict.

Change in British Society

Business & Money

Economics

A study of the educational experience of Englishmen and Welshmen from the First World War to the 1970s, offering answers to such questions as whether standards have declined, and if there is a class bias in education.

Origins and Destination: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Clarendon Pr

Origins and Destinations

Many analysts feel that the British higher educational system is in a state of crisis. Though some think it is the the best in the world, others believe it is ill-suited to approach tomorrow's needs. This volume describes the problem and explains the causes for academic power's decline and the increase in the power of students and industry as consumers of education and research. Halsey's arguments are supported by surveys which chart the development of academic opinion in polytechnics and universities. They reveal low morale, disappointment, and resentment--all combined with a persistent belief in the British ideal of a university.

Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

In this intriguing study, the dean of educational sociologists traces the evolution of the present crisis in British higher education.

Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Europe

Clarendon Press

This is the first-ever critical history of sociology in Britain, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field. Renowned British sociologist, A. H. Halsey, presents a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion, fragmentation, and explosion of the discipline during the past century. He is well equipped to write the story, having lived through most of it and having taught and researched in Britain, the USA, and Europe.The story begins with L.T. Hobhouse's election to the first chair in sociology in London in 1907, but traces earlier origins of the discipline to Scotland and the English provinces. There is a lively account of the nineteenth-century battles between literature and science for the possession of the third culture of social studies, setting the context for a narrative history of rapid expansion in the second half of the twentieth century. LSE had a virtual monopoly before World War II. The educational establishment of Oxford and Cambridge opposed its introduction into the undergraduate curriculum. Only the expansion of sociology to the Scottish, Welsh, provincial, and 'new' universities after the Robbins Report of 1963 brought reluctant acceptance of the subject to Oxford and Cambridge.The student troubles of 1968 are then described and the subsequent doubts, confrontations, and cuts of the 1970s and 80s. Then, paradoxically by a Conservative Government, there was a new university expansion incorporating polytechnics and other colleges, with a consequent doubling of both staff and students in the 1990s.Yet the end of the century left sociology riven by intellectual conflict. It had survived the Marxist subversions of the 70s and the feminist invasion. Yet the renewed challenges of various forms of relativism (especially enthno-methodology and post-modernism) still threatened, and at root the war was, as it began, between a scientific quantifying and explanatory subject and a literary, interpretative set of cultural studies.

A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society

This is the first-ever critical history of sociology in Britain, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field. A. H. Halsey presents a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion, fragmentation, and explosion of the discipline during the past century. The book examines the literary and scientific contributions to the origin of the discipline, and the challenges faced by the discipline at the dawn of a new century.

Oxford University Press, USA

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Change in British society: Based on the Reith lectures

Change in British Society (O P U S)

Change in British society: Based on the Reith Lectures (Open University set book)

Change in British Society

Origins and Destination: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain

Origins and Destinations

Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century

Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks)

A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society

A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society