Understanding post-war British society

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Understanding post-war British society

edited by James Obelkevich and Peter Catterall

Routledge, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Too many sociology textbooks begin and end with how society is structured. To understand how society operates it is necessary to explore not only its constituent structures and relationships, but how these structures emerge and why changes occur within them. By bringing together a group of distinguished sociologists and social historians, this book critically appraises the usefulness of current theories in advancing our understanding of contemporary society. It explores British society as dynamic and developing. In the process the authors draw our attention to the fact that society is shaped not just by social policy and structures, but by how far these influence people's life-patterns, attitudes, experience and conduct. Celia Brackenridge (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Joan C Brown, Robert G Burgess (University of Warwick), Rosemary Crompton (University of Kent), John Curtice (University of Str

目次

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Introduction: Understanding British society, 1 Trends in post-war British social history, 2 Elements of demographic change in Britain since 1945, 3 Political sociology 1945-92, 4 The family in post-war Britain, 5 Women in Britain since 1945: companionate marriage and the double burden, 6 Old age and gerontology, 7 Employment and industrial structure, 8 Non-manual labour, 9 Poverty in post-war Britain, 10 Aspects of education in post-war Britain, 11 Consumption, 12 Food and nutrition in post-war Britain, 13 Religion in post-war Britain: a sociological view, 14 The arts, books, media and entertainments in Britain since 1945, 15 Gender inequalities in leisure and sport in post-war Britain, Index

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