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Pioneering Social Research : Life Stories of a Generation
Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It combines a fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and influential social research with a valuable resource for future research and teachi...
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Pioneering Social Research Life Stories of a Generation: Life Stories of a Generation
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Authorship
- Acknowledgments
- Finding and using the pioneers' interviews
- Chapter 1 Introduction: the pioneers of social research study
- Who was interviewed?
- Interpreting the interviews
- Voices 1 Moments of discovery
- Meghnad Lord Desai: economists don't do fieldwork
- Stan Cohen: social marginality in racist South Africa
- Claus Lord Moser: learning statistics as an alien internee
- George Brown: suicide in the family
- Peter Loizos: first visit to Cyprus to meet his father's family
- Ken Plummer: coming out and coming out stories
- Mary Douglas on dirt
- Ann Oakley: 'What I am doing is work'
- John Bynner: the Bristol Student Union
- research making an impact
- Sir David Butler: on to electoral television
- Ruth Finnegan: listening and watching for hidden meanings
- Sir Jack Goody: the culture of flowers
- Peter Townsend: a bath attendant in an old people's home
- Chapter 2 Life stories: biography and creativity
- The influence of childhood communities
- Social mobility
- Family relationships
- Secondary schooling
- Gender in education
- Before university, and the wartime gap
- Marriage and divorce
- Parenting and grandparenting
- Family, social change and careers
- Voices 2 Beginnings
- Childhood: class and Empire
- Dennis Marsden: family and the complexities of English social class
- Janet Finch: a very female family
- David Butler: deep academic roots
- Pat Caplan: foreign travel in the family
- Stuart Hall: colour, class and family in Jamaica
- Opening minds
- Pat Caplan: writing and speaking in the family
- John Bynner: pulled between intellectual perspectives
- George Brown: bookshops as an intellectual opening
- Mary Douglas: schools, hierarchy and doctrine
- Michael Young: the fostering of individual creativity
- Dartington
- Partnership and marriage
- Hilary Rose: misogyny in biology's research culture
- Mary Douglas: marriage and writing
- James Douglas
- Chapter 3 Contexts: Empire, politics and culture
- Research under colonial conditions
- Times of war
- Shifting politics and professionalisms
- Post-war reconstruction and the rise of the welfare state
- The spirit of 1968
- Encountering gender
- Cultural studies, migration and Thatcherism
- Transnational and intersectional times
- Voices 3 Old boundaries, new thoughts
- Empire and war
- Jack Goody's journey to colonial Ghana
- W. M. Williams: diverse experiences in military service
- New visions: books of the time
- Robert Moore on Street Corner Society
- David Hargreaves on Erving Goffman
- Daniel Bertaux on Oscar Lewis
- Chapter 4 Organising: creating research worlds
- Expanding universities and shifting disciplines
- Research agencies