Out of the Burning House

Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4438-2858-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 175 Seiten

This unique collaboration, between a Marxist historian and behaviourist psychologist, is a vivid picture of the cultural milieu they experienced at Aberdeen University, and of social forces often overlooked in histories of the time: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.

As students together in the MacMillan Era, they shared an attachment to socialist, secular and scientific values. Like Brecht, they saw those unwilling to commit to revolutionary socialism as like people in a burning house asking if it is raining outside before they agree to escape.

They followed different paths in their subsequent lives: one became an historian and long-time member of the Communist Party; the other, although a radical behaviourist, unusually focussed on contemporary folklore and child labour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobbs, Sandy

Thompson, Willie

Über Autor(innen)

Sandy Hobbs, former Reader in Psychology, is now a research fellow at the University of the West of Scotland. He was a founder member of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. His books include Child Employment in Britain (with Jim McKechnie).

Willie Thompson was formerly Professor of Modern History at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the author of The Good Old Cause, a history of the Communist Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution in 1991. Other works include Ideologies in the Age of Extremes.