Mass Observation and Everyday Life

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Culture, History, Theory

ISBN: 0230247881
ISBN 13: 9780230247888
Autor: Hubble, N
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xi, 277 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

Only overview of the innovative social research organization Mass Observation, looking at its social and historical impact There is a revival of popular and academic interest in the work of Mass Observation Initial publication was reviewed in The New Yorker and ranks in Amazon’s bestselling modernism titles Paperback edition includes a new Afterword further contextualizing the work of Mass Observation

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Beschreibung

The social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across the long twentieth century. An excellent guide to Mass-Observation and the period generally, this scholarly work also provides surprising insights into the role social research has played in the development of policy and mass democracy.

Autorenporträt

NICK HUBBLE is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. A former Research Fellow at the Mass-Observation Archive, he has also taught at the University of Sussex, Kingston University and the University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.

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