Description, explanation, and understanding
Subtitle: selected writings, 1944-1980
By: Tom Burns.
Series: Edinburgh education and society series
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Sociology.; Social sciences.
Description: Best known for his studies of the organisation of local government, the electronics industry, the BBC and the National Health Service, he has also written on a diversity of subjects ranging from his experiences as a prisoner of war in the Second World War to student unrest in the late 1960s, and from urban development to consumer behaviour and the commercialisation of leisure. His latest book, on the writings of Erving Goffman, published in 1992, was widely praised.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.