Leisure Voluntary Action And Social Change In Britain 1880 1939
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Author | : Robert Snape |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350003034 |
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.
Author | : Sandie McHugh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2017-11-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319656511 |
This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time. A question that has engaged philosophers from the days of Aristotle, happiness is a subject of growing academic interest, and its recent integration into government policy is provoking increased debate into its definition and nature. Sandie McHugh and her associates build on the work of social anthropologist Tom Harrison’s ‘Worktown’ Mass Observation study from 1938, repeating the original study today. Together these accounts show how perceptions of happiness have changed over the years for the people of Bolton, UK, and reveal major difference between its definition then and now. This unique study is a useful tool in the understanding and study of happiness, offering invaluable insights for scholars and practitioners working in the fields of social psychology, positive psychology, health psychology and wellbeing. With chapters by Martin Guha and Jerome Carson; John Haworth; Robert Snape; and Matthew Watson and Linda Withey.
Author | : David G. Morgan-Owen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198805195 |
In this new study of the lead-up to the Great War, David G. Morgan-Owen deals with an aspect of the war seldom discussed for the simple reason that it never actually came to pass: a German invasion of the United Kingdom. Morgan-Owen makes the case that this fear of invasion played a central role in the formation of British strategy.
Author | : Paul Addison |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405141409 |
A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Leisure |
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Author | : David Gladstone |
Publisher | : Institute of Economic Affairs |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Social historians describe welfare delivery systems prior to 1948.
Author | : Helen Pussard |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Leisure |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Research |
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Author | : David Horton Smith |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1505 |
Release | : 2017-01-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137263172 |
Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it represents a major milestone for the discipline. Each chapter follows a rigorous theoretical structure examining definitions, historical background, key analytical issues, usable knowledge, and future trends and required research. The nine parts of the handbook cover the historical and conceptual background of the discipline; special types of volunteering; the major activity areas of volunteering and associations; influences on volunteering and association participation; the internal structures of associations; the internal processes of associations; the external environments of associations; the scope and impacts of volunteering and associations; and conclusions and future prospects. This handbook provides an essential reference work for third-sector research and practice, including a valuable glossary of terms defining over eighty key concepts. Sponsored by the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations (ICSERA; www.icsera.org), it will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners, and helps to define the emergent academic discipline of voluntaristics.
Author | : Peter Bailey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317973615 |
First published in 2006. Part of the Studies in Social History series, this volume looks at leisure and class in Victorian England, 1830-85, including topics of popular recreation, middle class and working class differences and rational recreation for the masses and the case of Victorian Music Halls in the entertainment industry.