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Author Hobbs, Sandy.

Title Out of the burning house : political socialization in the age of affluence / Sandy Hobbs and Willie Thompson.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 revolutionar ...
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Subject Hobbs, Sandy.
Hobbs, Sandy.
Thompson, Willie.
Thompson, Willie.
Hobbs, Sandy.
Thompson, Willie.
Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Socialists.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Aberdeen (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Socialism -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
Socialism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-1964
Subject Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1945-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Thompson, Willie.
Other Form: Print version: Hobbs, Sandy. Out of the burning house. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 9781443828581 (DLC) 2011459059 (OCoLC)707460479
ISBN 9781443828581 (cloth)
1443828580 (cloth)
9781443830478 (electronic book)
144383047X (electronic book)
1283142945
9781283142946
Standard No. 9786613142948