Category: PURE BLOG
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Whose fault is it anyway?
In a Facebook post, Len Williamson asked for views on this quote from “The Sociological Imagination” by C Wright Mills: The life of an individual cannot be adequately understood without references to the institutions within which his biography is enacted. For this biography records the acquiring, dropping, modifying, and in a very intimate way, the…
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National Service – nothing to be proud of…?
My grandfather (who was called up in the Second World War and served in the RAF) used to say that doing National Service was not something anyone should be proud of. Why would he believe that? I asked my research assistant and these were the suggestions that they came up with… “Your grandfather’s perspective on…
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