The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain [electronic resource] /
Holmwood, J.editor.
Scott, J.editor.
Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this Handbook maps the discipline and the British contribution.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c. 1725-1915; 3 Poverty Studies and Social Research; 4 Absent or Forgotten? Recovering British Social Theory; 5 Evolutionism and British Sociology; 6 Religion and British Sociology: The Power and Necessity of the Spiritual; 7 Sociology and Social Work: In Praise of Limestone?; 8 The First Sociology 'Departments'; 9 British Sociology in the Inter-War Years; 10 Building a Textbook Tradition: Sociology in Britain, 1900-68
11 The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction and British Sociology112 Feminism in Sociology, Feminism as Sociology; 13 Exiles in British Sociology; 14 British Sociology in the Metropole and the Colonies, 1940s-60s; 15 Between Science and the Humanities: Sociology as a Third Culture?; 16 The History of British Sociology from the Perspective of its Archived Qualitative Sources: Ruminations and Reflections; 17 The Sociology of Community; 18 Sociology of Race, Racism and Ethnicity: Trends, Debates and Research Agendas; 19 Research Methodology in Sociology
20 The Sociological Study of Religion: Arrival, Survival, Revival21 Criminology, Deviance and Sociology; 22 The Sociology of Work: From Industrial Sociology to Work, Employment and the Economy; 23 Sociology, Cultural Studies and the Cultural Turn; 24 'Class' in Britain; 25 Sociology of the Body and the Relation between Sociology and Biology; 26 Sociology's Past and Futures: The Impact of External Structure, Policy and Financing; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this Handbook maps the discipline and the British contribution.
Ethnicity.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Religion and sociology.
Social sciences.
Welfare state.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology of Religion.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Theory.