Understanding Post-War British Society

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-10940-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 338 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catterall, Peter

Obelkevich, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Catterall, James Obelkevich