A. H. Halsey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266609
- eISBN:
- 9780191601019
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266603.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
Literary claims to ownership of the third culture of sociology are considered and the rise of scientific method traced. The institutional history is summarized from the establishment of a chair of ...
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Literary claims to ownership of the third culture of sociology are considered and the rise of scientific method traced. The institutional history is summarized from the establishment of a chair of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1907. Phases of expansion (1950–67), revolt (1968–75) and uncertainty (1976–2000) are described. Analysis of the professors—their origins, careers and fame—is presented. A content analysis of three leading British journals of sociology is reported. An epilogue is finally added of eight essays by well‐known sociologists—A. H. Halsey, Z. Bauman, C. Crouch, A. Giddens, A. Oakley, J. Platt, W.G. Runciman, and J. Westergaard.Less
Literary claims to ownership of the third culture of sociology are considered and the rise of scientific method traced. The institutional history is summarized from the establishment of a chair of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1907. Phases of expansion (1950–67), revolt (1968–75) and uncertainty (1976–2000) are described. Analysis of the professors—their origins, careers and fame—is presented. A content analysis of three leading British journals of sociology is reported. An epilogue is finally added of eight essays by well‐known sociologists—A. H. Halsey, Z. Bauman, C. Crouch, A. Giddens, A. Oakley, J. Platt, W.G. Runciman, and J. Westergaard.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804773997
- eISBN:
- 9780804777834
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804773997.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter presents a discussion on the special relationship between the British Left and the United States. The New Left and the Atlanticist right listened closely to voices from the American ...
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This chapter presents a discussion on the special relationship between the British Left and the United States. The New Left and the Atlanticist right listened closely to voices from the American academy and progressive American journalism. Many of the New Left were concerned not merely to be a protest lobby within the political Establishment but, incredibly, a forefront of the common people. Alternative theater in the service of the anti-war student movement boomed in the major metropolitan areas of the United States. Communication and exchange of radical rhetoric and radical form were greatly alleviated by a transatlantic popular culture, and by direct personal relations with visiting American faculty, postgraduate students, and undergraduates. The Anglo-American connections of the student revolt may have masked important differences of class, precedent, emphasis, degree, and perhaps persistence.Less
This chapter presents a discussion on the special relationship between the British Left and the United States. The New Left and the Atlanticist right listened closely to voices from the American academy and progressive American journalism. Many of the New Left were concerned not merely to be a protest lobby within the political Establishment but, incredibly, a forefront of the common people. Alternative theater in the service of the anti-war student movement boomed in the major metropolitan areas of the United States. Communication and exchange of radical rhetoric and radical form were greatly alleviated by a transatlantic popular culture, and by direct personal relations with visiting American faculty, postgraduate students, and undergraduates. The Anglo-American connections of the student revolt may have masked important differences of class, precedent, emphasis, degree, and perhaps persistence.
William A. Link
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469611853
- eISBN:
- 9781469612584
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469611853.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the predicament faced by presidents of major universities during the mid- and late 1960s: responding to a rising tide of student activism. Some university administrators, ...
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This chapter discusses the predicament faced by presidents of major universities during the mid- and late 1960s: responding to a rising tide of student activism. Some university administrators, adopting a laissez-faire policy, found themselves enveloped in a crossfire of student demands and mounting frustration by alumni, community, and political leaders. Still others, by overreacting to the student revolt and employing excessive police force to quell it, risked an unraveling of the equilibrium of the academic community. Bill Friday pursued a careful path between these two extremes. Avoiding either passivity or overreaction, he attempted to insulate the university community from outside intervention and to preserve public confidence in it. At Chapel Hill, the earliest evidence of a new tone of student activism manifested itself in a challenge to the Speaker Ban.Less
This chapter discusses the predicament faced by presidents of major universities during the mid- and late 1960s: responding to a rising tide of student activism. Some university administrators, adopting a laissez-faire policy, found themselves enveloped in a crossfire of student demands and mounting frustration by alumni, community, and political leaders. Still others, by overreacting to the student revolt and employing excessive police force to quell it, risked an unraveling of the equilibrium of the academic community. Bill Friday pursued a careful path between these two extremes. Avoiding either passivity or overreaction, he attempted to insulate the university community from outside intervention and to preserve public confidence in it. At Chapel Hill, the earliest evidence of a new tone of student activism manifested itself in a challenge to the Speaker Ban.
Fred C. Abrahams
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814705117
- eISBN:
- 9781479841189
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814705117.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to ...
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In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. This book offers a vivid history of Albania’s transition from communism to democracy. It provides an in-depth look at the Communists’ last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania’s relationship with the United States. It weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in the country’s politics since 1990—including former Politburo members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army—and a close examination of hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and the United States.Less
In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. This book offers a vivid history of Albania’s transition from communism to democracy. It provides an in-depth look at the Communists’ last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive pyramid schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania’s relationship with the United States. It weaves together personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania, interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in the country’s politics since 1990—including former Politburo members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army—and a close examination of hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and the United States.
Lutz Fiedler
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474451161
- eISBN:
- 9781474495462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451161.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The book opens with an Introduction that gives a tight description of the historical place Matzpen occupied in the Israel of the 1960s and 70s. Looking at Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s famous visit to Israel ...
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The book opens with an Introduction that gives a tight description of the historical place Matzpen occupied in the Israel of the 1960s and 70s. Looking at Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s famous visit to Israel in the spring of 1970, the chapter offers an extensive interpretation of the Israeli debate that was triggered by the arrival of the leader of the European student revolt, but much more by his advocacy of the Israeli leftists of Matzpen. Taking this event as my departure point, an overview of Israeli society in the years following the Six-Day War is given, with an emphasis on three aspects that become relevant for the entire book: first, the return of the Palestine question with the beginning of the occupation, second, the place of Matzpen as a dissenting voice within Israeli society, and third, the continuing impact of Holocaust memory on political debates about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Only within this broader historical context is it possible to evaluate not only the significance of Matzpen in Israeli history but also the rejection the group encountered.Less
The book opens with an Introduction that gives a tight description of the historical place Matzpen occupied in the Israel of the 1960s and 70s. Looking at Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s famous visit to Israel in the spring of 1970, the chapter offers an extensive interpretation of the Israeli debate that was triggered by the arrival of the leader of the European student revolt, but much more by his advocacy of the Israeli leftists of Matzpen. Taking this event as my departure point, an overview of Israeli society in the years following the Six-Day War is given, with an emphasis on three aspects that become relevant for the entire book: first, the return of the Palestine question with the beginning of the occupation, second, the place of Matzpen as a dissenting voice within Israeli society, and third, the continuing impact of Holocaust memory on political debates about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Only within this broader historical context is it possible to evaluate not only the significance of Matzpen in Israeli history but also the rejection the group encountered.
Dieter Grimm
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198845270
- eISBN:
- 9780191880551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198845270.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
The chapter describes the first job as a researcher in legal history in the newly founded Max-Planck-Institut for the History of European Private Law in Frankfurt, his work on the relationship ...
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The chapter describes the first job as a researcher in legal history in the newly founded Max-Planck-Institut for the History of European Private Law in Frankfurt, his work on the relationship between constitutional and private law in the nineteenth century, his Habilitation on the same subject, the novelty and importance of the subject. The year 1968, student protest movement, his involvement in two reform movements in connection with 1968, one concerning the Cusanuswerk (scholarship fund of the Catholic Church), the other the Max-Planck-Society.Less
The chapter describes the first job as a researcher in legal history in the newly founded Max-Planck-Institut for the History of European Private Law in Frankfurt, his work on the relationship between constitutional and private law in the nineteenth century, his Habilitation on the same subject, the novelty and importance of the subject. The year 1968, student protest movement, his involvement in two reform movements in connection with 1968, one concerning the Cusanuswerk (scholarship fund of the Catholic Church), the other the Max-Planck-Society.
