Mass-Observation

Text, Context and Analysis of the Pioneering Pamphlet and Movement

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22647-0 (ISBN)

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This book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation – the compelling social research project that ran for decades in the mid-20th century – with expert commentary throughout. It also features brand new supporting essays by and informative interviews with prominent scholars of Mass-Observation which reflect on the organisation, its origins and its influence on multiple academic disciplines, including history, sociology and anthropology. An introductory essay by the editor synthesizes the arguments of this material, as well as contributing vital historical context and suggestions for ways in which other disciplines might benefit from the use of Mass-Observation approaches and archival material. There is also a chronology of Mass-Observation, its publications and major figures associated with it.

Mass-Observation offers an unparalleled wealth of insights into the lived experiences of Britons in the 20th century and this volume provides the best introduction to it available, familiarizing you with both the original Mass-Observation aims and what value this fascinating material carries for us today.

Jennifer J. Purcell is Professor of History at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, USA. Using Mass-Observation diaries and directives, her first book, Domestic Soldiers (2010), seeks to understand the day-to-day lives of six women on the home front during the Second World War. She is also the author of Mother of the BBC: Mabel Constanduros and the Development of Light Entertainment on the BBC, 1925-1957 (Bloomsbury, 2020).

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Chronology
Introduction, Jennifer J. Purcell
1. ‘The Observation by Everyone of Everyone’: The Project of Mass-Observation in 1937, Ben Highmore
2. Mass-Observation, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson
3. Uncivilising Sociology: How Mass Observation can free the discipline, Rachel Hurdley
4. Voices from the Archive, Jennifer J. Purcell
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Mass-Observation Critical Series
Zusatzinfo	9 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-22647-5 / 1350226475
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22647-0 / 9781350226470
Zustand	Neuware