Pioneering social research : life stories of a generation / Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer, Neli Demireva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Paul, author.

Plummer, Kenneth, author.

Demireva, Neli, author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Bristol University Press 2021

Summary:

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 teaching on methods.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781447333548

1447333543

9781447333562

144733356X

9781447333531

1447333535

OCLC:

1239992332