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A Child of the Empire: British Sociology and Colonialism, 1940s--1960s (2013)

Steinmetz, George (Author)

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Volume: 49, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 353-378

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Sociology Discipline formation Colonialism Great Britain, colonies Universities and colleges 20th century Great Britain Sánchez Cózar, Santiago

British sociology was established as an academic discipline between 1945 and 1965, just as the British Empire was gearing up for a new phase of developmental colonialism backed by the social and other sciences. Many parts of the emerging sociological discipline became entangled with colonialism. Key themes and methods in sociology and the staff of sociology departments emerged from this colonial context. Historians have tended to place postwar British sociology in the context of expanding higher education and the welfare state, and have overlooked this colonial constellation. The article reconstructs this forgotten moment of disciplinary founding and explores three of the factors that promoted colonial sociology: the Colonial Social Science Research Council, the so-called Asquith universities, and the social research institutes in the colonies; and the involvement of sociologists from the London School of Economics in training colonial officials.

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