What is it about?
How did people conduct relationships in the 1950s, and how did they think about this? And was this essentially any different from the present day?
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Why is it important?
It uses close empirical data to critically examine the assumption of 'traditional society'
Perspectives
It was fun going to original sources from Mass Observation
Professor Simon Duncan
University of Bradford
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This page is a summary of: The World We have Made? Individualisation and Personal Life in the 1950s, The Sociological Review, May 2011, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2011.02001.x.
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