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The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain / edited by J. Holmwood, J. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Religion and sociology.
- Sociology--Methodology.
- Sociology.
- Welfare state.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Social Structure.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Sociological Methods.
- Welfare.
- Social Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Social Structure.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Sociological Methods.
- Welfare.
- Social Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (646 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this Handbook maps the discipline and the British contribution.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c. 1725-1915; 3 Poverty Studies and Social Research; 4 Absent or Forgotten? Recovering British Social Theory; 5 Evolutionism and British Sociology; 6 Religion and British Sociology: The Power and Necessity of the Spiritual; 7 Sociology and Social Work: In Praise of Limestone?; 8 The First Sociology 'Departments'; 9 British Sociology in the Inter-War Years; 10 Building a Textbook Tradition: Sociology in Britain, 1900-68
- 11 The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction and British Sociology112 Feminism in Sociology, Feminism as Sociology; 13 Exiles in British Sociology; 14 British Sociology in the Metropole and the Colonies, 1940s-60s; 15 Between Science and the Humanities: Sociology as a Third Culture?; 16 The History of British Sociology from the Perspective of its Archived Qualitative Sources: Ruminations and Reflections; 17 The Sociology of Community; 18 Sociology of Race, Racism and Ethnicity: Trends, Debates and Research Agendas; 19 Research Methodology in Sociology
- 20 The Sociological Study of Religion: Arrival, Survival, Revival21 Criminology, Deviance and Sociology; 22 The Sociology of Work: From Industrial Sociology to Work, Employment and the Economy; 23 Sociology, Cultural Studies and the Cultural Turn; 24 'Class' in Britain; 25 Sociology of the Body and the Relation between Sociology and Biology; 26 Sociology's Past and Futures: The Impact of External Structure, Policy and Financing; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137318862
- 1137318864
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