From Leonard Hobhouse to Tony Blair: A Sociological Connection?

Studholme, Maggie

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“…Hence, the influential sociological writings of Leonard Hobhouse, Morris Ginsberg, T.H. Marshall and Percy Cohen contained a strong impulse towards political liberalism which was expressed in their emphasis on individual and ethical responsibility and their strong aversion to evolutionary and structural models of social change (Studholme 1997). Nevertheless, following the Second World War, British sociology, reflecting its intermediary positionin historical, cultural and linguistical terms -between the United States and Continental Europe, was formatively shaped by the contextual dynamics of Cold War politics.…”

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The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

Loyal¹

2015

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in 1997. My supervisor Barry Barnes was both a model academic and inspiring supervisor and he continues to be a source of encouragement and intellectual stimulation. This intellectual debt is clearly evident throughout the book. In addition, Chapter 3 contains material from a joint paper written with Barry. I would also like to thank a number of other people including friends and former colleagues for their comments and suggestions during the long gestation of this book:

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The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

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2015

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“…It is nevertheless possible that his ambitions in this direction were reawakened with the endowment of the Martin White Chair. Studholme (1997Studholme ( , 2007Studholme ( , 2008 argues that the appointment of Hobhouse rather than Geddes to the Chair effectively prevented the engagement of sociology with wider environmental concerns, and that the dominance of LSE well into the postwar era compounded this. Similarly, if Wells had been appointed, the history of sociology would have been very different: both utopia and gender relations would have been central to the discipline from the outset.…”

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Back to the Future: Wells, Sociology, Utopia and Method

Levitas

2010

The Sociological Review

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This article explores the involvement of H.G. Wells in the early institutional development of sociology in Britain. It addresses Wells's aspiration to a Chair of Sociology as the context for his claim that that 'the creation of utopias -and their exhaustive criticism -is the proper and distinctive method of sociology', and the implications of a hundred years of suppression of utopianism and normativity within the discipline. It argues that Wells was substantially right, and that if sociology embraced the more utopian method of the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, it would inform a greater range of social alternatives for confronting ecological and economic crises.

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“…These political theorists included the left‐oriented Douglas Cole (1920) and Richard Tawney (1931; see Clift and Tomlinson, 2002), the more conservative position of Harold Macmillan's (1938) ‘Middle Way’, and the fascism of Oswald Mosley's (1932) New Party. Such ideas were taken up once more towards the end of the twentieth century, when sociologists such as Ulrich Beck (1986) and Anthony Giddens (1994; 1998) began to develop their own variants of third way politics (see Studholme, 1997).…”

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Victor Branford and the Building of British Sociology

Scott¹,

Husbands²

2007

The Sociological Review

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Victor Branford was a central figure in the institutional development of British sociology in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. He is, however, a neglected figure and little is known about his life and his work in sociology. This article presents a biographical account of Victor Branford and outlines his sociological ideas. Particular attention is given to the part played by Branford and his second wife, Sybella Gurney, in the establishment of the Sociological Society and The Sociological Review. Writing between 1903 and 1930, he set out a distinctive view of the nature of sociology and an account of modernity, which he saw as underpinning a conception of a third way in politics that goes beyond capitalism and socialism. He tied this view, set out in the years after the First World War, to a conception of the public role of sociology in which the sociologist was to be a leading element in the building of social citizenship through social reconstruction.Despite his centrality in the history of British sociology, Victor Branford is a neglected figure. 1 He is known -if at all -only as one of the rather nebulous figures involved in the early days of British Sociology. Though he had no formal university position (he had applied for Chairs at Birmingham and at Manchester), he was central to the building of the key institutions that sustained sociology in Britain for the first thirty tears of the twentieth century. He set up the first Sociological Society, was the founder, editor, and prime mover of The Sociological Review, furthered its scientific activities through the formation of study groups, and ensured that the Society had premises from which to work. He was involved in sociological work at all levels, including the Board of Sociological Studies at the London School of Economics, the principal centre for the teaching of sociology in Britain throughout the period. Despite producing numerous publications (see, for example, Branford, 1914Branford, , 1923Branford, , 1924, his intellectual impact was marginal. Nevertheless, his reflections on the public role of sociology were of pivotal significance in the early organisation of British sociology.There are few discussions of Branford's life or ideas, and none of any length. 2 Those discussions of the history of sociology that mention him, do so only in passing and give only the barest details of his life. Using data from civil The Sociological Review, 55:3 (2007)

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From Leonard Hobhouse to Tony Blair: A Sociological Connection?

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The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

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