The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-2
The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c.1725–1915....Pages 3-29
Poverty Studies and Social Research....Pages 30-53
Absent or Forgotten? Recovering British Social Theory....Pages 54-70
Evolutionism and British Sociology....Pages 71-96
Religion and British Sociology: The Power and Necessity of the Spiritual....Pages 97-122
Sociology and Social Work: In Praise of Limestone?....Pages 123-154
The First Sociology ‘Departments’....Pages 155-188
British Sociology in the Inter-War Years....Pages 189-210
Building a Textbook Tradition: Sociology in Britain, 1900–68....Pages 211-235
The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction and British Sociology....Pages 236-259
Feminism in Sociology, Feminism as Sociology....Pages 260-281
Exiles in British Sociology....Pages 282-301
British Sociology in the Metropole and the Colonies, 1940s–60s....Pages 302-337
Between Science and the Humanities: Sociology as a Third Culture?....Pages 338-358
The History of British Sociology from the Perspective of its Archived Qualitative Sources: Ruminations and Reflections....Pages 359-373
The Sociology of Community....Pages 374-395
Sociology of Race, Racism and Ethnicity: Trends, Debates and Research Agendas....Pages 396-412
Research Methodology in Sociology....Pages 413-436
The Sociological Study of Religion: Arrival, Survival, Revival....Pages 437-458
Criminology, Deviance and Sociology....Pages 459-487
The Sociology of Work: From Industrial Sociology to Work, Employment and the Economy....Pages 488-509
Sociology, Cultural Studies and the Cultural Turn....Pages 510-535
‘Class’ in Britain....Pages 536-562
Sociology of the Body and the Relation between Sociology and Biology....Pages 563-587
Sociology’s Past and Futures: The Impact of External Structure, Policy and Financing....Pages 588-610
Back Matter....Pages 611-631