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Peter Mandler - The sociological imagination in mid-twentieth century Britain and America

Lectures in Intellectual History
Lectures in Intellectual History
Episode • Mar 12, 2012 • 56m
How has the language of social science penetrated its way into the everyday discourse of educated people, particularly in the period after the Second World War? In this lecture, Peter Mandler examines the extent to which people in mid-twentieth century Britain and America used the conceptual tools of psychology, sociology and anthropology to view their personal 'issues' also as social 'problems'.

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