Identities and Social Change in Britain Since 1940 - The Politics of Method

Zusatztext Mike Savage is one of the UK's foremost historical sociologists and his recent exciting book provides a fascinating insight into the history of the social sciences and their role in the remaking of social class identities in Britain from the 1930s to the present daythis book provides a fascinating consideration of the role of expertise within British 20th-century history and its interaction within the creation of a specialised sociology as an academic subjectit will be of great use to historians and sociologists of post-war Britain. Informationen zum Autor Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he is Director of the ESRC's Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). He has written extensively on social change in Britain after 1945 notably in Class Analysis and Social Transformation (2000) and in Globalisation and Belonging (with Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst, 2005) Klappentext Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 draws extensively on archived qualitative social science data to offer a unique, personal, and challenging account of post war social change in Britain. Zusammenfassung Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 draws extensively on archived qualitative social science data to offer a unique, personal, and challenging account of post war social change in Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Savage
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2010
• EAN: 9780199587650
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958765-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Sociology, Politik und Staat, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social groups, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Social groups, communities and identities