Making of a Sociologist - Between Being and Knowing

This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Village and Family
2. School, Sport and the Mexborough
3. From Yorkshire to London, from History to Sociology
4. Leicester: Europe in England
5. King's, Cambridge: College Life, Sociology and Politics
6. Nuffield, Oxford and British Sociology
7. European Sociology
Envoi: The Sociologist Made

About the author

John H. Goldthorpe is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Summary

This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist.

Product details

• Authors: John H. Goldthorpe, Goldthorpe John H.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032974903
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297490-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology