Self and Society
Focusing on the decades between the late 1940s and late 1970s, Peter Mandler explores how sociological thinking permeated everyday life during an era of affluence, permissiveness, and therapeutic culture. This lecture uncovers how ordinary people adopted new frameworks for understanding their place in society.
What to expect:
- đ§ The rise of the âsociological imaginationâ
- đą Postâwar social change and new forms of selfâunderstanding
- đď¸ How social science shaped everyday life in midâcentury Britain