Details

Description

xiii, 282 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Bibliography

Includes bi bliographical references (p. [255]-271) and indexes.

Contents

1962 : Introduction -- 2005 to 1938 : Lifting social groups out of the landscape -- 1938 : The British intellectual and highbrow culture -- 1954 : The challenge of technical identity -- 1940 : The resurgence of gentlemanly expertise in post-war Britain -- 1962 : The moment of sociology -- 1956 : The end of community : the quest for the English Middletown -- 1951 : The interview and the melodrama of social mobility -- 1941 : The sample survey and the modern rational nation -- 1948 to 1962 : The remaking of social class identities -- Conclusion : 2009 : The politics of method.

Subject

Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-

Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-

ISBN

9780199587667 (pbk.)

0199587663 (pbk.)

9780199587650 (hardback)

0199587655 (hardback)