Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Out of the Burning House: Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence

Out of the Burning House: Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence

Hobbs, Sandy
Thompson, Willie

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1443828580
ISBN13: 9781443828581
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 175
Language: English
This unique collaboration, between a Marxist historian and behaviourist psychologist, is a vivid picture of the cultural milieu they experienced at Aberdeen University, and of social forces often overlooked in histories of the time: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women's Liberation Movement. As students together in the MacMillan Era, they shared an attachment to socialist, secular and scientific values. Like Brecht, they saw those unwilling to commit to revolutionary socialism as like people in a burning house asking if it is raining outside before they agree to escape. They followed different paths in their subsequent lives: one became an historian and long-time member of the Communist Party; the other, although a radical behaviourist, unusually focussed on contemporary folklore and child labour.

Also from

Hobbs, Sandy

View All

Also in

Biographies General

View All