Custom and conflict in British society / edited by Ronald Frankenberg
1982, First Edition. Manchester Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Humanities Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394755
ISBN: 0719008557
Physical description; iv, 361 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A social anthroplogy for Britain? -- The knights of the textbooks -- Industry and society: the changing basis of accomodation -- Quiet revolution in traditional society -- The Manchester factory studies, the social context, bureaucratic organisation, sexual divisions and their influence on patterns of accommodation between workers and management -- Max Gluckman and the Manchester shop-floor ethographies -- Freedom and constraints in British education -- Expulsion in context: a school as a system in action -- Socio-economic class, sex role stereotypes and the judicial process in an English megistrates' court -- Telling tales in prison -- Community cohesion and space planning -- Taking Professor Gluckman seriously: the case of participant observation -- Drama and politics in the development of a London carnival. Subjects; Gluckman, Max 1911-1975. Social conditions. Great Britain Social conditions 1945-.
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