The social research organization, Mass-Observation, was one of the most innovative intellectual projects of the 20th century. This study, now available in paperback, examines the historical and social significance of the project and shows how social research has played a role in the development of policy and mass democracy. INDICE: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword INTRODUCTION: THE MASS-OBSERVATION PROJECT Defining Mass-Observation A Brief History of Mass-Observation Everyday Life and Social Transformation PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDEveryday Life in the Long Twentieth Century Social Surveys: From Booth's Lifeand Labour of the London Poor to Kracauer's Die Angestellten and the Lynd's Middeltown PART II: THE SPACE OF FORMER HEAVEN Cambridge Experiment Letter to Oxford British Social Anthropology Popular Poetry and the 'Thirties' PART III: THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE MASSES Profane Illumination and New Objectivity; English Surrealism and British Democracy Empson's Imaginary Solution PART IV: EARLY MASS-OBSERVATION The Formation of Mass-Observation Coronation Pastoral PARTV: BRITAIN BEGINS AT HOME First Year's Work First Year's Reception The MunichCrisis The Lambeth Walk PART VI: THE MOBILISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE Active Leadership and the Civilian Army The Ministry of Everyday Co-operating with the Tax Collector PART VII: THE DEMOBILISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE Politics, Pubs, Penguins Society in the Mind Resumption of the People's War Conclusion: Mass-Observation Reassessed Afterword Bibliography and Sources Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24788-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés