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A History of Sociology in Britain

Science, Literature, and Society

By: A. H. Halsey

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A History of Sociology in Britain

Science, Literature, and Society

By: A. H. Halsey

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.

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OUP Oxford

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0191532886

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No Discouragement

An Autobiography

By: A.H. Halsey,foreword Roy Hattersley

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An Autobiography

By: A.H. Halsey,foreword Roy Hattersley

This is the autobiography of a working-class boy who became an Oxford professor. A.H. Halsey was born in Kentish Town, London, in 1923 - a railway child in a large clan. The family moved in 1926 to Rutland and then to Northamptonshire because the father had been wounded in the Great War. Halsey 'won the scholarship' to Kettering Grammar School in 1933, left school at 16, went into the RAF as a pilot cadet. The metaphor of travel through time and space is maintained throughout this autobiography. The story begins with daily walks past canal boats in Oxford, flashes to the Pacific to Hong Kong and China, and then to a glimpse of death in the John Radcliffe Hospital, promising to explain the whole journey from a council housing estate to a professorial chair at Oxford.

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Springer

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1349251372

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Technical Change and Industrial Relations

A Study of the Relations between Technical Change and the Social Structure of a Large Steelworks

By: W. H. Scott,J. A. Banks,A. H. Halsey,T. Lupton

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Technical Change and Industrial Relations

A Study of the Relations between Technical Change and the Social Structure of a Large Steelworks

By: W. H. Scott,J. A. Banks,A. H. Halsey,T. Lupton

This 1956 study, undertaken by the Department of Social Science at the University of Liverpool from 1953-1956, studies the relations between technical change, social structure, and attitudes to change at a single large steel plant.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837648018

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P.T. Barnum

The Legend and the Man

By: A. H. Saxon

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P.T. Barnum

The Legend and the Man

By: A. H. Saxon

I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, to attract attention to a show, Phineas Taylor Barnum wrote to a publisher in 1860. "I don't believe in 'duping the public,' but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them." The name P.T. Barnum is virtually synonymous with the fine art of self-advertisement and the apocryphal statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Nearly a century after his death, Barnum remains one of America's most celebrated figures. In the Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum, A.H. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes. Always the king of showmen, Barnum considered himself a museum man first and was forever on the lookout for "curiosities," whether animate or inanimate. His early career included such outright frauds as Joice Heth, the "161-year-old nurse of George Washington," and the Fejee Mermaid-the desiccated head and torso of a monkey sewn to the body of a fish. Although in later years he projected a more solid, respectable image-managing the irreproachable "legitimate" attraction Jenny Lind, becoming a leading light in the temperance crusade, founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus-much of his daily existence continued to be unabashedly devoted to manipulating public opinion so as to acquire for himself and his enterprises what he delightedly termed "notoriety." His famous autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum, which he regularly augmented during the last quarter century of his life, was itself a masterpiece of self-promotion. "Will you have the kindness to announce that I am writing my life & that fifty-seven different publishers have applied for the chance of publishing it," he wrote to a newspaper editor, adding, "Such is the fact-and if it wasn't, why still it ain't a bad announcement." The Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum captures the magic of this consummate showman's life, truly his own "greatest show on earth.

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Columbia University Press

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0231056877

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Social Research and Social Reform

Essays in Honour of A.H. Halsey

By: Colin Crouch

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Social Research and Social Reform

Essays in Honour of A.H. Halsey

By: Colin Crouch

In the face of current scepticism about the effectiveness of social research this book provides a reassessment of its influence and suggests new ways in which its relationship to social reform should be viewed.

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Oxford University Press

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0198278543

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No Discouragement

An Autobiography

By: A.H. Halsey,foreword Roy Hattersley

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Technical Change and Industrial Relations

A Study of the Relations between Technical Change and the Social Structure of a Large Steelworks

By: W. H. Scott,J. A. Banks,A. H. Halsey,T. Lupton

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A Study of the Relations between Technical Change and the Social Structure of a Large Steelworks

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A History of Sociology in Britain

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