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  • The Family and Social Change

    by Christopher Harris, Colin Rosser ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume V of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1965, this study looks at family and kinship in the South Wales town of Swansea which was used as a parallel to the Institute of Community Studies 1957 study in east London at Bethnal Green. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)

    An Historical and Sociological Study

    by Eric Dunning, Patrick J. Murphy, John Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Education and the Professions

    by History of Education Society ...
    Part of the educational system in England has been geared towards the preparation of particular professions, while the identity and status of members of some professions have depended significantly on the general education they have received.Originally published in 1973, this volume explores the interaction between education and the professions. It also looks at the education of the main ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Oxford Town and Gown

    by Peter Collison ...
    Oxford: Town and Gown is a unique look at the relationships between universities and their local communities, the result of a wide-ranging sociological survey carried out by Peter Collison in 1960s Oxford, at the pivotal moment when the world depicted by authors like Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Hardy changed forever. Surveys carried out at the same time in York and Reading, two university towns of ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD

  • Family and Kinship in East London

    by Michael Young, Peter Wilmott ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies.A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the failure in social terms of the great rehousing campaign which was getting under way in the 1950s. The tall flats built to ... Read more

    $321.55 CAD

  • Criminal Justice

    An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice

    by Ian Marsh, John Cochrane, Gaynor Melville ...
    This new text encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. The first part offers a clear and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice and punishment and the developing perspective of victimology. In the second part, the focus is on the main ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

    A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

    by Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

    Gender, Class and Ethnicity

    by Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke ...
    Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Adult Education

    A Comparative Study

    by Peers F. Robert ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume II of twenty-eight in a series on the Sociology of Education. Originally published in 1958, this is a comparative study of adult education in that starts with a historical review of the provision in England before 1850, between the Wars and beyond as well as delving into the characterises and personality of the adult student. The author’s travels to the United States, Germany, the ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD