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Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970 (Hardcover)
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Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael
Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual,
political, and cultural life, using his study of the social
sciences to inform his political thought. In the mid-twentieth
century the social sciences significantly expanded, and played a
major role in shaping British intellectual, political and cultural
life. Central to this intellectual shift was the left-wing policy
maker and sociologist Michael Young. As a Labour Party policy maker
in the 1940s, Young was a key architect of the Party's 1945
election manifesto, 'Let Us Face the Future'. He became a
sociologist in the 1950s, publishing a classic study of the East
London working class, Family and Kinship in East London with Peter
Willmott in 1957, which he followed up with a dystopian satire, The
Rise of the Meritocracy, about a future society in which social
status was determined entirely by intelligence. Young was also a
prolific social innovator, founding or inspiring dozens of
organisations, including the Institute of Community Studies, the
Consumers' Association, Which?magazine, the Social Science Research
Council and the Open University. Moving between politics, social
science, and activism, Young believed that disciplines like
sociology, psychology and anthropology could help policy makers and
politicians understand human nature, which in turn could help them
to build better political and social institutions. This book
examines the relationship between social science and public policy
in left-wing politics between the end of the Second World War and
the end of the first Wilson government through the figure of
Michael Young. Drawing on Young's prolific writings, and his
intellectual and political networks, it argues that he and other
social scientists and policy makers drew on contemporary ideas from
the social sciences to challenge key Labour values, like full
employment and nationalisation, and to argue that the Labour Party
should put more emphasis on relationships, family, and community.
Showing that the social sciences were embedded in the project of
social democratic governance in post-war Britain, it argues that
historians and scholars should take their role in British politics
and political thought seriously
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