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  Understanding Post-war British Society (Hardback) Edited by James Obelkevich, Edited by Peter Catterall

  

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  Short Description for Understanding Post-war British SocietyThis text brings together the perspectives of sociologists and social historians to understand the shaping of British society. It critically appraises the usefulness of current theories in advancing our understanding of contemporary society, and explores British society as dynamic and developing.
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  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
  • Published: 01 December 1994
  • Format: Hardback 228 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology & Anthropology | Sociology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | British & Irish History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000 | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780415109390 ISBN 10: 0415109396

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• Too many sociology textbooks begin and end with how society is structured. To understand how society operates it is necessary to explore not only its constituent structures and relationships, but how these structures emerge and why changes occur within them. By bringing together a group of distinguished sociologists and social historians, this book critically appraises the usefulness of current theories in advancing our understanding of contemporary society. It explores British society as dynamic and developing. In the process the authors draw our attention to the fact that society is shaped not just by social policy and structures, but by how far these influence people's life-patterns, attitudes, experience and conduct. Celia Brackenridge (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Joan C Brown, Robert G Burgess (University of Warwick), Rosemary Crompton (University of Kent), John Curtice (University of Str