Mass Observation and Everyday Life Culture, History, Theory
by Hubble, NickFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
The social research organization, Mass-Observation, was one of the most innovative intellectual projects of the 20th century. This study, now available in paperback, examines the historical and social significance of the project and shows how social research has played a role in the development of policy and mass democracy.
Author Biography
Nick Hubble is Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. A former Research Fellow at the Mass Observation Archive, he has also taught at the University of Sussex, Kingston University and the University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Introduction: The Mass-Observation Project | p. 1 |
| Defining Mass-Observation | p. 1 |
| A Brief History of Mass-Observation | p. 4 |
| Everyday Life and Social Transformation | p. 10 |
| Historical Background | p. 17 |
| Everyday Life in the Long Twentieth Century | p. 17 |
| Social Surveys: From Booth's Life and Labour of the London Poor to Kracauer's Die Angestellten and the Lynds' Middletown | p. 27 |
| The Space of Former Heaven | p. 38 |
| Cambridge Experiment | p. 38 |
| Letter to Oxford | p. 46 |
| British Social Anthropology | p. 54 |
| Popular Poetry and the 'Thirties' | p. 61 |
| The Intellectuals and the Masses | p. 79 |
| Profane Illumination and New Objectivity: English Surrealism and British Documentary | p. 79 |
| Empson's Imaginary Solution | p. 91 |
| Early Mass-Observation | p. 104 |
| The Formation of Mass-Observation | p. 104 |
| Coronation Pastoral | p. 120 |
| Britain Begins at Home | p. 133 |
| First Year's Work | p. 133 |
| First Year's Reception | p. 142 |
| The Munich Crisis | p. 150 |
| The Lambeth Walk | p. 157 |
| The Mobilisation of Everyday Life | p. 165 |
| Active Leadership and the Civilian Army | |
| The Ministry of Everyday | p. 179 |
| Co-operating with the Tax Collector | p. 189 |
| The Demobilisation of Everyday Life | p. 200 |
| Politics, Penguins, Pubs | p. 200 |
| Society in the Mind | p. 212 |
| The Resumption of the People's War | p. 219 |
| Conclusion: Mass-Observation Reassessed | p. 226 |
| Afterword: Extra/Ordinary People | p. 230 |
| Bibliography and Sources | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 268 |
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