Lise Butler (Lecturer in Modern History Lecturer in Modern History

Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics. It focuses on the time period between the end of the Second World War and the end of the first Wilson government through the figure of the policy maker, sociologist and social innovator Michael Young.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Historical Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780198862895
• ISBN-10: 019886289X
• Artikelnr.: 60164543

Autorenporträt

Lise Butler is a Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. She is a historian of modern Britain, interested in political history, left-wing politics, and the history of the social sciences. She completed her doctorate at University College Oxford, and has held a lectureship in History at Pembroke College Oxford and an Archives By-Fellowship at Churchill College Cambridge. She is originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1: 'We were all very sick and very stupid': the Conference on the
Psychological and Sociological Problems of Modern Socialism and the
politics of the group
* 2: 'Bigness is the Enemy of Humanity': Political and Economic
Planning, social science, and public policy, 1945 to 1950
* 3: 'For Richer, For Poorer': Family policy and women, 1950-52
* 4: The Institute of Community Studies, 1953-58
* 5: From kinship to consumerism: Coming to terms with the middle
class, 1958-1963
* 6: Facing the future: Social science in the first Wilson government,
1964-70
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index