Out of the Burning House : Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence.
Title:
Out of the Burning House : Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence.
Author:
Hobbs, Sandy.
ISBN:
9781443830478
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (174 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- TIMELINE -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- APPENDIX D -- APPENDIX E -- APPENDIX F -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This unique collaboration, between a Marxist historian and behaviourist psychologist, is a vivid picture of the cultural milieu they experienced at Aberdeen University, and of social forces often overlooked in histories of the time: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women's Liberation Movement. As students together in the MacMillan Era, they shared an attachment to socialist, secular and scientific values. Like Brecht, they saw those unwilling to commit to revolutionar...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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