This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist.

is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Introduction

1. Village and Family

2. School, Sport and the Mexborough

3. From Yorkshire to London, from History to Sociology

4. Leicester: Europe in England

5. King's, Cambridge: College Life, Sociology and Politics

6. Nuffield, Oxford and British Sociology

7. European Sociology

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