Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present
Published on 27. July 2016
X, 218 pages
978-1-349-20786-2 (ISBN)
Description
The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be called the sociological uses of history.
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Stephen Kendrick | David McCrone | Pat Straw
Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present
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06/1990
Palgrave Macmillan
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Stephen Kendrick | David McCrone | Pat Straw
Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present
Book
06/1990
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Sociology and History, The Past and The Present; The Editors - Future History; C.Tilly - What is Sociological History?; C.Hay - The Currency of History for Sociology; G.Wickham - Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change; B.Elliott - Social Change and Economic Life in Kirkcaldy, 1891-1987: sources and methods, a historical perspective; J.Smyth - The Historical Reconstruction of Rural Localities: A New Zealand case study; R.R.Hall - Urbanisation as Moral Project: Transitions in Twentieth Century Britain; R.Mellor - Aye tae the Fore: the Fife Miners in the 1984-5 Strike; S.Najam - History and Sociology in the New Economic Sociology: a Discourse in Search of a Method; R.Penn - Change and Continuity in History and Sociology: The Case of Industrial Paternalism; H.Bradley - Sub-Contracting and Industrial Development; R.Fevre - Index
