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British Sociology in the Metropole and the Colonies, 1940s–60s

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In Britain, as in most of the rest of Europe, the years after the Second World War saw the establishment of sociology as a field, that is, as a ‘fully fledged academic discipline with autonomous degrees, departments, and research facilities’ (Goudsblom and Heilbron, 2004, p. 14574). It is difficult, however, to determine the exact geographic extension and shape of this academic field. As Cooper has noted, France only become a recognisable nation-state in 1962 ‘when it gave up the last vital element of its imperial structure, Algeria’ (2005, p. 156). The same was equally true of Britain. The years from the early 1940s to the early 1960s witnessed the emergence of a ‘fourth British empire’ (Darwin, 2006), reduced in size but massively refortified, with expanded personnel, and engaged in new policies of colonial ‘developmentalism’. Hasty summaries of this epoch as a period of decolonisation miss an important chapter not only in the history of colonialism but also in the genesis of UK sociology.

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Steinmetz, G. (2014). British Sociology in the Metropole and the Colonies, 1940s–60s. In: Holmwood, J., Scott, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318862_14

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