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The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (645 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137318862
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in BritainDDC classification:
  • 301.0941
LOC classification:
  • HT1501-1595.22
Online resources:
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 Sociology1 -- 12 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, Revival -- 21 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.
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.
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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 Sociology1 -- 12 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, Revival -- 21 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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