International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 7 Issue 1

CALHOUN, KINSHIP AND COMMUNITY

Richard Whipp

The work of Craig Calhoun is examined as a perspective on the operation of community structures. Three facets are considered: Calhoun's model of the pre‐industrial community…

SOCIAL PLANNING AS SYMBOLIC PRACTICE: TOWARD A LIBERATING DISCOURSE FOR SOCIETAL SELF DIRECTION

Richard Harvey Brown

What is the place for personal agency and a morally legitimate civic order in a world of technical calculation? The historically recent opposition between systems management and…

SEX AS LIBERATION: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF SOME CURRENT PERSPECTIVES

Eric Carlton

It is argued that the sexual revolution thesis lacks conviction. Changes in sexual attitudes and practices popularly thought to be “modern” are not “original” in any essential…

PATHOLOGIES OF GIANT CITIES ‐ LEADING EDGE OF THE PATHOLOGIES OF MODERN CIVILIZATION

Lester W. Milbrath

If cultural evolution is purposive cities should have improved the quality of human life. City life is examined first in relation to the satisfaction of human needs. The inner…

PROBLEMS IN THE GRID‐GROUP ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT

Mark N. Wexler

Grid‐group analysis is grounded in a humanistic conception of social science but, it is argued, it has flaws when applied to the analysis of the environmental movement…

POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTITUDES TO THE STATE SECTOR ‐ RESEARCH NOTE

Peter Taylor‐Gooby, Margaret Bochel

Data drawn from the 1985 British Social Attitudes survey are considered with respect to the implications for ideas about the sphere of government responsibility in relation to…

ACCESS TO AUSTRALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

F.L. Jones

The history of Australian education is outlined. Then the pattern of present access to higher education of persons of different social classes is examined by analysis of data from…

DEPOPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN COLONSAY (INNER HEBRIDES)

John W. Sheets, Keith E. Kelly

This article analyses the household dynamics in Colonsay during the severe depopulation of 1841–1891. The nineteenth century dynamics are then related to the twentieth century…