A Critical Perspective on British Social Surveys and Community Studies and Their Accounts of Married Life c.1945–70     

《Cultural and Social History》2013,10(1):47-64

ABSTRACT

The family was a subject of prime importance to sociologists in the post-war period. Married life was one of the principal themes of British social surveys and community studies undertaken at this time. This article investigates the limitations associated with these contemporary analyses and how they can be explained. It will examine the relationship between the studies' findings and contemporary social developments, the variations in married life, and how the researchers' accounts related to their wider aims. It will conclude that such studies were more a product of the optimism of the post-war period than prompted by patriarchal beliefs.  相似文献   

Darts in England, 1900–39: A Social History. By Patrick Chaplin     

《Cultural and Social History》2013,10(2):277-278

ABSTRACT

This article examines the status and meanings of heterosexual love in post-war Britain. It is situated within the burgeoning field of the history of emotion and draws upon recent work on interiority and modern selfhood. It argues that love became a central plank in the quest for self-actualization in this period. It explains why love triumphed over pragmatism in the remaking of British matrimony and how this impacted upon the institution of marriage itself. The article posits the immediate post-war years as a time of significant discursive change and emotional instability: expectations rose and critical introspection deepened. The ways in which love was fashioned in the 1940s and 1950s were central to the dramatic social and cultural changes that occurred in the decades that followed.  相似文献   

A Question of Trousers: Seafarers,Masculinity and Empire in the Shaping of British Male Dress,c. 1600–1800     

Beverly Lemire 《Cultural and Social History》2016,13(1):1-22

Trousers have a history. The British-imperial biography of this garment reveals the significance of ready-made clothing production for naval and merchant administrations with global reach. This history demonstrates the significance of male sartorial experiments in colonial settings. And it also confirms the rising importance of imperial and maritime cultures in shaping masculine ideals and habits of dress. Ultimately, middle ranked and elite male Britons came to rethink their allegiance to breeches and hose, a mnemonic of the ancien régime. Social cross-dressing ensued, with men of higher status adopting the garb of nautical working men, at a time when mariners were increasingly esteemed. The study of trousers opens new vantage points from which to assess the forces altering British masculinity, forces that also reshaped material norms.  相似文献   

“健康胜任教学”——英国残疾人申请教师资格的政策和实践及启示     

高智雄 《中国特殊教育》2010,(9)

英国的＂健康胜任教学＂政策是在反歧视法律的完善和教师供给危机的压力下建立起来的。政策规定了胜任教学能力的评估标准和残疾人申请教师资格的程序,同时也明确了教师培训机构和医疗评估人员的职责。＂健康胜任教学＂政策的实施虽然取得了一些成效,但也存在多方面的问题和挑战。  相似文献