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Social sciences

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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Archives of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, 1968 - 2014

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SPS
Scope and Contents

The records relate largely to the administration of the department, its teaching programme and Tripos reform. A significant quantity of records document the work of faculty committees.

Dates: 1968 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access: Personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
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Articles, 1971 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/5
Scope and Contents Comprising: with John Ziman, "Cycles in Social Behaviour", 1971; with Peter Willmott, "Social Class and the Peak-Load Traffic Problem in London", 1971; "Historical Changes in Social Cycles", 1972; "Parish Councils for Cities?", 1972; "Dilemmas in a New Europe", 1972; "A Dosser's Day", 1973; with Jorg Münstermann and Konrad Schacht, "Poverty in a West German Town", 1975; "For Richer, For Poorer. Some Problems of Low-Income Consumers", 1975; "SSRC - the First Years", 1975; "Suffer the...
Dates: 1971 - 1979
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Articles, 1991 - 2001

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/7
Scope and Contents Comprising: "SSRC Grants - the First Three Years", undated [1990]; "Slaves of Time", 1991; article on death for the "Encyclopedia of Time", 1992; "Open University Open About Death", 1993; introduction to "Innovations in Information", 1993; comment on the Commission on Social Justice, 1994; "Moral Intelligence", 1994; "The Significance of U3A", 1994; with Chelly Halsey, "Family and Community Socialism", 1995; " Why Where?", 1995; "Threatened Americanisation of Privatised Crematoria", 1995;...
Dates: 1991 - 2001
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"Five Studies in Poverty" and "Poverty in Britain Today", 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YONG 4/3
Scope and Contents

Sasha Moorsom Young was the producer of these two BBC radio programmes.

Dates: 1960 - 1962
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Interviewers and Blank Questionnaires, 1940 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 2/2
Scope and Contents

Papers connected with market research and social survey procedures, including interviewers and interview techniques.

Dates: 1940 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lectures, 1954 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 3/1/1
Scope and Contents Comprising: "The Labour Party and the Middle Class Mind", given at the Fabian Society's Easter School, 1954; "Family and Kinship", given at the Annual Conference of the Family Welfare Association, 4 November 1955; "Studying Kinship in East London", given at Professor [Max] Gluckman's seminar in Manchester, 24 June 1957; a talk on "The Human Group" by Professor [George] Homans, given at the Family Seminar, September 1957; "The Responsibility of the Parent and the School", given at the Annual...
Dates: 1954 - 1979
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Personal Papers of Barbara Wootton, 1897 - 1994

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wootton
Scope and Contents The papers of Barbara Wootton deposited at Girton College are contained in 14 boxes. They include the following: personal and general correspondence; biographical materials; photographs; a small number of records of and relating to BW's brothers, Arthur Adam and Neil Adam; copies of some of BW's written work, published and unpublished; the text of some of her lectures and talks; transcripts of some of her media broadcasts; reviews of her work; and correspondence re her work; general papers...
Dates: 1897 - 1994
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The Papers of Mark Abrams

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS
Scope and Contents The collection covers nearly every aspect to Abrams's career and comprises: market research and social survey data; reports on results of surveys produced by the organisations for which Abrams worked, including the London Press Exchange and his own business Research Services Ltd. and their clients; papers covering Abrams's consultancy and committee work for the Labour Party, Social Science Research Council, and Age Concern; and published articles and talks by Abrams himself. The...
Dates: 1915 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.