Pioneering social research : life stories of a generation /
Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer and Neli Demireva.
Bok Engelsk 2021
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (1 online resource 256 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Also issued in print: 2021.. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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 the fascinating history of generations who built outstanding and influential social research with providing a major resource for current research and - especially for methods - for future teaching.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 1-4473-3353-5. - 1-4473-3356-X
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