Kushner on Race
Post-WWII - mobilised EVWs from Eastern Europe for reconstruction - made underclass of citizens.
Payani on race
South Asians, Europeans assimilated faster than Afro-Caribbeans
Cesarini on race
Identity Crisis from war, immigration, economic and social transformation
Ward on race
WWII set the people as white in the mind of the nation.
Ward on race
Windrush gen seen as ‘dark strangers’. Race riots raised consciousness.
Buettner on race
950s - White women with black men was seen as corrupting - seen as socially deviant. Link to GAIL LEWIS. Relationship of mother and father seen as deviant, 70% disapproved.
What was New Racism?
New Racism - 1970s - ‘more indirect, more subtle, more procedural, more ostensibly nonracial’ - embodied by Thatcherite policy.
What documentary looked at the secret lives of the private detective?
This Week 444 - Divorce
Young and Wilmott - Bethnal Green and the New Bethnal Green
What did the New East End argue?
- It controversially argued that administration of local housing policy had benefited Bangladeshis, leaving the white working class resentful and had contributed to the rise of racism in Tower Hamlets through the 80s and 90s
- “As recent migrants to Bethnal Green have tended to be more needy, their needs have taken priority. We argue the indigenous working class understand this all too easily, and this feeds their hostility towards migrants. They see their welfare state as having been adapted to suit migrants and morally undermined in the process,”
Young and Wilmott - Bethnal Green and the New Bethnal Green
How did Kate Gavron attempt to defend the New Bethnal Green book?
- Insists it simply records the views of the white population.
- But others feel these views are not borne out by the evidence. “I felt libelled … it was a complete misrepresentation of how Tower Hamlets changed. My children said it was like BNP propaganda,” said Eileen Short, who has lived and been active in her council tenant association in Tower Hamlets for nearly 30 years.
Young and Wilmott - Bethnal Green and the New Bethnal Green
How did David Kynaston respond to the book?
David Kynaston, Historian - describes three phases of understanding the book:
- Real history - true reflection of contemporary networks
- Weak history - did not reconcile with individualism which was present in 1940s.
- Not history - ultimate value is literary
Young and Wilmott - Bethnal Green and the New Bethnal Green
How did Lesley Hanley respond to the book?
- Family and Kinship in East London remains powerful because so many of the conventions and structures of working-class life have remained intact
- Her council estate exp. also saw her suffer from loneliness and the weakening of social ties by splitting extended families
- Reading much of it makes me wince in the knowledge that I further weakened the networks described by leaving home and not coming back after university:
- socially mobile daughters are not looked upon at all kindly by the East End families in the book and, despite 50 years of apparent social change, neither are they today.
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
What two views of sociology emerged in the 1970s?
- Sociology was a plague subverting the political order
- Sociology is the modern assemblage of theory and method with potential for the reform of imperfect society
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
What did Thatcher’s regime lead to?
- Thatcher’s government sought economy in public spending and put pressure on the UGC and on the research councils. From 1981, the universities themselves were required to administer cuts and these fell heavily on the sociology departments: some were closed, some posts were left unfilled, and all were constricted with fewer grants from the ESRC and fewer grant-aided students.
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
What did the Gould Report of 1977 argue?
- Denunciatory analysis on behalf of the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC) (1977), criticizing Marxist infiltration of sociology as a threat to established customs of research and teaching.
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
What accelerated the development of sociology in the postwar era?
- 1960s Robbins report - which called for the expansion of university education. Followed the OECD aim of doubling higher education within a decade.
- Whereas in the 1940s there cannot have been more than 200 undergraduates studying sociology, and these largely concentrated at LSE, by 1966/7 there were nearly 3,000, and by 1970/1 nearly 4,000 in the UK universities, not counting students in the then polytechnics or The Open University.
- Demand outstripped supply of sociologists.
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
Who were the first generation of professional sociologists?
- A wave of sociologists from LSE, who had won access to university through scholarship. Would become a critical force for charting change in postwar Britain
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Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
Describe the development of sociology in the second half of the twentieth century
- Rapid development in 1950s and 1960s, slowdown in the 1970s, collapse in 1980s.
- Uneven development - proliferated through new ‘plateglass’ universities, but failed to win over all in Oxbridge.
- Sociology forced into disarray and soul searching in the 1970s - due to the rise of anti-positivist logic.
Halsey - A History of Sociology in Britain
Who was the driving force behind MO, and why?
- Charles Madge. Desired the human application of science - desiring the ‘mass observation’ in order to create a ‘mass science’.
- By chance, managed to publish in New Statesman at the same time as Tom Harrisson - who was at that time studying ‘worktown’ Bolton.
- The mass observers were youngish, left leaning and middle class, far from representative of the nation.
What does McCarthy, 2017 argue?
Post-war idea that a woman should look to more domestic life to enjoy a well-rounded life (McCarthy, 2017).
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Place and Belonging5
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Food in Postwar Britain8
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