Is the Intellectual Life an End in Itself?

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
John Nef
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
London School ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Swarthmore College ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
British Labour ◽  
The Subject ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Obituary Notice

AtAbout the time I received my first faculty assignment at Swarthmore College, an obituary notice of an old and admired professor made a deep impression on me. The subject was L. T. Hobhouse, the distinguished English sociologist and lifelong liberal. He had been one of the intellectual pillars upon which the Webbs and a few others had constructed the London School of Economics. I did not know Hobhouse well. But his obituary notice was written by a man I much admired, who was in a way my intellectual father: R. H. Tawney. You perhaps know him as the author of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, but he was much better known then as a moral force in the British Labour party. To some of its members Tawney's Acquisitive Society, first published in 1921, seemed to offer a fresh charter of liberty, giving a kind of spiritual sanction, missing in Marxian philosophy, to the struggle to overcome misery and poverty with the help of political action.

‘For Richer, For Poorer’

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
London School ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss

Chapter 3 examines an unpublished policy document that Young submitted to the Labour Party Policy Committee in 1952 called ‘For Richer, For Poorer’, which marked a transition from Young’s public policy career towards sociology and social research. Young left his position in the Labour Party Research Department after the Conservative election victory in the 1951 general election, and undertook a Ph.D. in social administration at the London School of Economics supervised by the social policy thinker Richard Titmuss. Responding to the Labour Party’s failure to appeal to women voters in the 1951 election, ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ urged the Labour Party to pay more attention to family policy. Young integrated a historical vision of declining social cohesion caused by industrialization and suburbanization with contemporary concerns about the poverty of women and children that built on the work of earlier social poverty researchers and the feminist campaigns for a family allowance led by Eleanor Rathbone. This document reflected a turn in Young’s thought away from the focus on full employment and macro-economic planning which had characterized much of his policy work during the Attlee government, and towards thinking about social policy from the perspective of those he conceived of as non-workers, including the elderly, the unemployed, children, and women.

scholarly journals MODERN PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION COURSES IN GREAT BRITAIN

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Olena Mudra
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
London School ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Experience ◽  
London School Of Economics

The objective of this article is to analyze the content of the professional foreign language communication courses at the universities of Great Britain – Oxford, Cambridge and London School of Economics. The purpose of our project is to identify the features of the organization and functioning of the professional foreign language communication courses at universities of Great Britain and to substantiate the possibilities of using the British experience in Ukraine. According to the purpose of the project, the following main tasks of our research are defined: to study the state of the problem research; to investigate the directions of reforming courses in Great Britain; to describe the organization and functioning of the professional foreign language communication courses; to carry out a comparative and pedagogical analysis of language policy in Ukraine and Great Britain and to exemplify some recommendations for the possible implementation of the experience of Great Britain in the practice of higher education in our country. The object of the project is the professional foreign language communication courses in universities of Great Britain. The subject of the study is the content, forms, methods and technologies of the above mentioned courses. During our research it has been proved that an important incentive for the creation of courses is the introduction and practice of both compulsory and optional elective courses in British universities. The practical significance of the obtained results of the project lies in the possibility of using the experience of organizing and functioning of professional foreign language communication courses in universities of Great Britain in higher educational institutions of Ukraine.

Titmuss, Richard Morris

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Syers
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
London School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Richard Morris Titmuss (1907–1973) was a scholar, administrator, and educator who developed the subject area of social policy and administration as an intellectually respectable field of inquiry. He was chair of Social Administration at the London School of Economics.

Women as Paid Organizers and Propagandists for the British Labour Party Between the Wars

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Hannam
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Women's Lives

AbstractThis article contributes to recent debates about the complicated ways in which women involved in the interwar British Labour Party negotiated their political identities through an examination of the activities and aims of a neglected group, the paid women organizers. It suggests that although they accepted the importance of women's work within the home, the organizers did not see women's lives as confined by domesticity. Instead, they argued that women in the home had the potential for collective political action. The article looks at the campaign for pit head baths to highlight the attempt by the organizers to develop a politics around issues such as dirt that concerned women in their daily lives. It was difficult to persuade the Labour Party to take these questions seriously, and the organizers experienced constraints as well as opportunities that came from their paid role, but it is argued here that they did carve a career that was woman-focused and sought to give women in the home a voice.

An African Morality

Africa ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Godfrey Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Whole Body ◽  
London School ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Tradition ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Oral Teaching

Opening ParagraphThis paper is an attempt to introduce the subject of morality for scientific discussion after a new manner. It is inspired throughout by that part of Professor Malinowski's work which relates to Primitive Law, and which he has developed in Crime and Custom in Savage Society, in his introduction to Dr. Ian Hogbin's Law and Order in Polynesia, and in his oral teaching at the London School of Economics in recent years. In his analysis of law Professor Malinowski finds himself driven to the study of the whole body of sanctioned custom, and of all the various attractions and compulsions that lead men to conform to a social tradition of right behaviour. A certain portion of that field is here delimited for separate description, namely morality, which is that part of right custom that is sanctioned by religion.

Martin Wight and the theory of international relations: The Second Martin Wight Memorial Lecture

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedley Bull
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
London School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Assistant Lecturer

THERE is no lecture which I could feel more honoured to have been asked to give than one which commemorates the name of Martin Wight. Just twenty years ago I made the same journey I have just made – from Oxford to the London School of Economics – to take up a position as assistant lecturer in the Department of International Relations. I had not done a course of any kind in International Relations, nor made any serious study of it, and as I arrived in Houghton Street I wondered how I was to go about teaching the subject and even whether it existed at all.

The British Labour Party and Twentieth Century Ireland

Race & Class ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
John Newsinger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
British Labour

Party Matters

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hopkin
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
National Party ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Real Picture ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between political decentralization and the organization of political parties in Great Britain and Spain, focusing on the Labour Party and the Socialist Party, respectively. It assesses two rival accounts of this relationship: Caramani's `nationalization of politics' thesis and Chhibber and Kollman's rational choice institutionalist account in their book The Formation of National Party Systems. It argues that both accounts are seriously incomplete, and on occasion misleading, because of their unwillingness to consider the autonomous role of political parties as advocates of institutional change and as organizational entities. The article develops this argument by studying the role of the British Labour Party and the Spanish Socialists in proposing devolution reforms, and their organizational and strategic responses to them. It concludes that the reductive theories cited above fail to capture the real picture, because parties cannot only mitigate the effects of institutional change, they are also the architects of these changes and shape institutions to suit their strategic ends.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document