C T Husbands
Biographic Data
| ID | 50960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C T Husbands |
| GIVEN NAMES | C T |
| FAMILY NAME | Husbands |
| SIGNATURE | HUSBANDS C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0336-514X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Martin Bulmer: An apostle for quantification in sociology
This contribution summarizes Martin Bulmer’s role in spreading among sociologists an interest, and a facility, in the basic use of quantitative techniques, both by his teaching at the London School of Economics and in other institutions where he was employed, but also to the sociology profession in Britain more generally. It also discusses his crucial role in expanding the scope and influence of the journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies, moving it f…
No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses Before the ‘First’ Sociology Course
Why is there no Socialism in the United States
Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party-an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about "Americ…
Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1904–2015: Sound and Fury
Michael Parker Banton, 1926-2018
The Anti-Quantitative Bias in Postwar British Sociology
The anti-quantitative orientation may have seemed to derive emotional as well as theoretical support from a partial and imperfect reading of C. Wright Mills's famous critique of American sociology. The specific methods – as distinct from the philosophy – of empiricism are clearly suitable and convenient for work on many problems. In discussing the sources of the hostility to quantitative sociology one embarks upon an interesting sortie into the s…
Ethnic and Racial Studies: An Outline History of Forty Years of Publishing the Research Agenda on Ethnic and Racial Issues
Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) began publishing in 1978. Over the following forty years it developed in terms of its editorial arrangements, its format, the types of contribution published, the characteristics of its author contributors, the characteristics and methodologies of its articles, the topics that they described, and the countries whose circumstances they covered. The article describes these developments, mostly analysed by quinquennia…
Michael Banton (1926-2018)
Readers of Ethnic and Racial Studies, both those of long standing and more recent ones, will be greatly saddened to hear of the passing of Michael Banton, who died in hospital on 21 May 2018 at the
Michael Parker Banton: An Appreciation of His Life's Work
This article is an appreciation of the contributions to ethnic and racial studies and to British sociology in general of Michael Parker Banton. It reviews his career and also his major publications, including also arguments against him made by his principal critics and his responses to these. It points out the specificity of his contributions and argues for his unique importance in defining and developing the field of ethnic and race relations in…
Political Parties: Extreme Right
Rescuing from oblivion: Social characteristics and career destinations of early British 'sociology' graduates, 1907-39
Those students who were among the first sociology graduates in the UK barely feature in standard histories of the discipline, which all have an intellectual and institutional focus. This article remedies this neglect by researching the social backgrounds and later careers of sociology graduates from the London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE] and Bedford College for Women from the first such graduate in 1907 until those graduating …
The First Sociology â Departmentsâ
The First Sociology ‘Departments’
In The New Machiavelli, a novel first published in 1911, H.G. Wells's protagonist ruminates: I have long since come to believe it necessary that all new social institutions should be born in confusion, and that at first they should present chiefly crude and ridiculous aspects. (Book I, Chapter 2) This was probably Wells's own, doubtless ironic, view being applied to the evolution of the British system of state education, but it would apply equall…
Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe
What distinguishes a moral panic from a mere myth is that the former is based upon a kernel of acknowledged truth, either one which has been exaggerated or one which is a real truth that may be the
Karl Wichmann (1868–1948): A Research Note
This article is a research note that updates an earlier article published by the author concerning the circumstances and fate of Karl Wichmann (1868–1948). It provides information on several issues that was not known when the earlier article was prepared. Wichmann was Professor of German at the University of Birmingham from 1907 till his resignation in 1917. The article particularises how their British nationality was withdrawn from Wichmann and …
Sociology in America: A History - Edited by Craig Calhoun
DoppelgäNgers and Racists: On Inhabiting Alternative Universes. A Reply to Steve Fuller'S ‘A Path Better not to Have Been Taken’
German Academics in British Universities During the First World War: The Case of Karl Wichmann 1
Despite the scholarly attention given to the treatment of Germans in Great Britain during the First World War, there are only sparse details in this historical literature about how those of German origin working specifically in higher education were treated. This article considers Professors of German of German origin in British higher education, focusing on the hitherto little‐reported case of Karl Wichmann (better known as a minor German/Englis…
Victor Branford and the Building of British Sociology
Victor Branford was a central figure in the institutional development of British sociology in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. He is, however, a neglected figure and little is known about his life and his work in sociology. This article presents a biographical account of Victor Branford and outlines his sociological ideas. Particular attention is given to the part played by Branford and his second wife, Sybella Gurney, in the esta…
A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature, and Society – A. H. Halsey
How to Tame the Dragon, or What Goes Around Comes Around
Theorizing about the causes and occurrences of extreme-right racist politics during the past five decades is an activity with variations in fashion and interest. While extreme-right racist political movements have been present in greater or lesser degree in most Western European countries since World War II, there have been particular periods of more intense activity and associated theorizing, although not all periods of heightened extreme-right …
Switzerland: Right-Wing and Xenophobic Parties, From Margin to Mainstream
Journal Article Switzerland: right-wing and xenophobic parties, from margin to mainstream? Get access CT Husbands CT Husbands London School of Economics, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 501–516, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.501 Published: 01 July 2000
Percy S. Cohen (l928–l999)
Implications for the Assessment of the Teaching Competence of Staff in Higher Education of some Correlates of Students' Evaluations of Different Teaching Styles
Ratings by students of the teaching that they receive in higher education may be seen as types of evaluation within an all‐round assessment perspective. In order therefore that they be used properly, especially in managerial assessments and appraisals of teachers' competence, it is important that the nature of factors correlating with them be understood. The paper shows, from studies done over four years at the London School of Economics and Poli…
Job Flexibility and Variations in the Performances and Motivations of Longer-Term Part-Time Teaching Auxiliaries at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Victor Branford and the Building of British Sociology
Victor Branford was a central figure in the institutional development of British sociology in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. He is, however, a neglected figure and little is known about his life and his work in sociology. This article presents a biographical account of Victor Branford and outlines his sociological ideas. Particular attention is given to the part played by Branford and his second wife, Sybella Gurney, in the esta…
The Other Face of 1992: The Extreme-right Explosion in Western Europe
Journal Article The Other Face of 1992: The Extreme-right Explosion in Western Europe Get access CHRISTOPHER T. HUSBANDS CHRISTOPHER T. HUSBANDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 267–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052358 Published: 01 July 1992
The support for thefront national: Analyses and findings
This article reviews the literature - most but not all of it in French - on the mass support given in France during the 1980s to the Front National led by Jean-Marie Le Pen. Its principal focuses are the locational concentrations of this support, its social and demographic characteristics, and its former political-party allegiances. Part of the presentation is expositional but the article also contains critiques of some of the methodological appr…
The dynamics of racial exclusion and expulsion: Racist politics in western Europe
The concept of political racism is necessarily more specific than the more universal concepts of racism used in social science outside the sphere of politics. Thus, despite the common tendency to explain political racism using theories developed to account for other forms of racism, one turns most profitably to a range of political factors operating differently in time and/or location in order to arrive at the most thorough understanding of the e…
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
British Social Attitudes: The 1984 Report
Racial Exclusionism and the City: The Urban Support of the National Front
1. The political background to the growth of the National Front and the development of the party from 1967 to 1982 2. Urban processes and the politics of racial exclusionism 3. Survey research, local histories and National Front sympathy 4. The structural and attitudinal characteristics of National Front sympathy 5. Economic position and National Front sympathy 6. Urban racist politics in England
The Bases of National Front Support
The National Front (NF) is of interest both to students of British politics and to political sociologists interested in the general study of contemporary right-wing movements. This article examines the extent of public sympathy for the NF and identifies factors distinguishing NF voters from the rest of the adult population. Analysis of twenty-two national surveys shows that less than 1 per cent of the adult population aged fifteen or older are pr…
How Voters Decide: A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Voting Extending Over Fifteen Years
Ethnic and Racial Studies: An Outline History of Forty Years of Publishing the Research Agenda on Ethnic and Racial Issues
Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) began publishing in 1978. Over the following forty years it developed in terms of its editorial arrangements, its format, the types of contribution published, the characteristics of its author contributors, the characteristics and methodologies of its articles, the topics that they described, and the countries whose circumstances they covered. The article describes these developments, mostly analysed by quinquennia…
Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1904–2015: Sound and Fury
Michael Parker Banton: An Appreciation of His Life's Work
This article is an appreciation of the contributions to ethnic and racial studies and to British sociology in general of Michael Parker Banton. It reviews his career and also his major publications, including also arguments against him made by his principal critics and his responses to these. It points out the specificity of his contributions and argues for his unique importance in defining and developing the field of ethnic and race relations in…
The New Fascists
Extreme right‐wing politics in great Britain: The recent marginalisation of the national front
1988). Extreme right‐wing politics in great Britain: The recent marginalisation of the national front. West European Politics: Vol. 11, Right‐Wing Extremism in Western Europe, pp. 65-79
The mainstream right and the politics of immigration in France: Major developments in the 1980s
This article describes a typology of international migrants, particularly as applies to the situation in western Europe since World War II, and it discusses the applicability of the various types of migrant categories thus identified for the analysis of immigration policy in France during the 1980s. Approaches and criteria in the political analysis of immigration policy are discussed. The subsequent presentation focuses especially on the orientat…
DoppelgäNgers and Racists: On Inhabiting Alternative Universes. A Reply to Steve Fuller'S ‘A Path Better not to Have Been Taken’
Switzerland: Right-Wing and Xenophobic Parties, From Margin to Mainstream
Journal Article Switzerland: right-wing and xenophobic parties, from margin to mainstream? Get access CT Husbands CT Husbands London School of Economics, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 501–516, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.3.501 Published: 01 July 2000
German Academics in British Universities During the First World War: The Case of Karl Wichmann 1
Despite the scholarly attention given to the treatment of Germans in Great Britain during the First World War, there are only sparse details in this historical literature about how those of German origin working specifically in higher education were treated. This article considers Professors of German of German origin in British higher education, focusing on the hitherto little‐reported case of Karl Wichmann (better known as a minor German/Englis…
Job Flexibility and Variations in the Performances and Motivations of Longer-Term Part-Time Teaching Auxiliaries at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Neo‐Nazis in east Germany: The new danger
Government Popularity and the Unemployment Issue, 1966-1983
Sociologists have neglected the implications for their subject of the various factors that determine the level of popularity of governments. Whether the rate of unemployment, for example, is related to government popularity may sometimes be an indicator of the existence of 'communalism' in a society. For three of the four full-term or near-full-term governments since 1966 the rate of unemployment has been a predictor of month-by-month government …
Dealing in Votes: Interactions between Politicians and Voters in Britain and the USA
The form of the book is of a series of essays in which the details and consequences of the unintended consequences are worked out for different topics. One of the most impressive of these is the critique originally published in French of John Rawls' famous book, A Theory of Justice. Boudon shows convincingly that the fundamental error of Rawls' whole approach is that it treats society in general as just a particularly large form of complex organi…
When the Bubble Burst: Transient and Persistent National Front Supporters, 1974–79
One point of interest about the period of the Labour government from October 1974 to May 1979 is the short-term surge and subsequent decline between these dates of electoral support for the National Front (NF). This episode of NF voting raises a number of questions. Some of these are simple empirical ones. What, for example, were the political origins, in terms of voting behaviour in the October 1974 general election, of this body of NF voters? W…
The Cross-National Study of Inequality: A Research Note
Michael Banton (1926-2018)
Readers of Ethnic and Racial Studies, both those of long standing and more recent ones, will be greatly saddened to hear of the passing of Michael Banton, who died in hospital on 21 May 2018 at the
A Comparison of Book Reviewing by the AJS and the ASR
The Cross-National Study of Inequality: A Research Note
Sociology, History and Education: A Reader
Class and Politics in the United States
Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe. Stephen Castles , Godula Kosack
Why is there no Socialism in the United States?
Why is There no Socialism in the United States
The Changing American Voter
The Bases of National Front Support
The National Front (NF) is of interest both to students of British politics and to political sociologists interested in the general study of contemporary right-wing movements. This article examines the extent of public sympathy for the NF and identifies factors distinguishing NF voters from the rest of the adult population. Analysis of twenty-two national surveys shows that less than 1 per cent of the adult population aged fifteen or older are pr…
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States
Boy Daniel. Sombart Werner, Why is there no socialism in the United States ?. In: Revue francaise de sociologie, 1980, 21-2. pp. 302-306
Contemporary Right‐Wing Extremism in Western European Democracies: A Review Article
Even the most cursory survey within the countries of western Europe reveals a curiously variegated pattern of political activity and purpose among organizations of the extreme right. While there is one characteristic that is currently common to all such movements, namely their diminishing or negligible electoral support, it is rather less easy to achieve any immediate theoretical understanding of the examples of such movements in different countr…
Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies: The French and British Experience, 1945-1975
The National Front in English Politics
The Design and Understanding of Survey Questions
How Voters Decide: A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Voting Extending Over Fifteen Years
The New Fascists
Dealing in Votes: Interactions between Politicians and Voters in Britain and the USA
The form of the book is of a series of essays in which the details and consequences of the unintended consequences are worked out for different topics. One of the most impressive of these is the critique originally published in French of John Rawls' famous book, A Theory of Justice. Boudon shows convincingly that the fundamental error of Rawls' whole approach is that it treats society in general as just a particularly large form of complex organi…
When the Bubble Burst: Transient and Persistent National Front Supporters, 1974–79
One point of interest about the period of the Labour government from October 1974 to May 1979 is the short-term surge and subsequent decline between these dates of electoral support for the National Front (NF). This episode of NF voting raises a number of questions. Some of these are simple empirical ones. What, for example, were the political origins, in terms of voting behaviour in the October 1974 general election, of this body of NF voters? W…
Decade of Dealignment: The Conservative Victory of 1979 and Electoral Trends in the 1970s
Preface Note on documentation Note on tables Part I. Political Context and Electoral Change Ivor Crewe: 1. The flow of events 2. The flow of the vote 3. The lockgates on the vote Part II. Issues, Opinion and Party Choice in the 1979 Election Bo Sarlvik: 4. Opinions on political issues and voting - the directions of the enquiry 5. Why the parties were liked and disliked 6. Managing the economy - the Labour government's record and the Conservative …
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Books
A dictionary in the minimal sense of the word E. Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, 308 pp., £16.95 h.b. Racial harmony as a public good Michael Banton, Promoting Racial Harmony. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 141 pp., £5.95 p.b. ‘Locals’ and ‘foreigners’: anthropology in Battersea Sandra Wallman, Eight London Households, Tavistock Publications, London and New York, 1984, 232 pp., £14.00 h.b.…
British Social Attitudes: The 1984 Report
Racial Exclusionism and the City: The Urban Support of the National Front
1. The political background to the growth of the National Front and the development of the party from 1967 to 1982 2. Urban processes and the politics of racial exclusionism 3. Survey research, local histories and National Front sympathy 4. The structural and attitudinal characteristics of National Front sympathy 5. Economic position and National Front sympathy 6. Urban racist politics in England
Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment Since 1885
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