A. H. Halsey

Albert Henry Halsey (* 1923 in London ) is a British sociologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Social and Administrative Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Life

Born to a railroad worker in North London ( Kentish Town), Halsey grew up in a working-class family who still moved during his childhood in Corby Northamptonshire. He got there a free place in the Grammar School, which he left at 16. During the war he served for six years as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. After the war, he enrolled to study sociology at the London School of Economics.

As a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, he worked on the PhD Ralf Dahrendorf and David Lockwood. From 1962 he was Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of Oxford and was also a Fellow at Nuffield College. As a follower of " ethical socialism ", he was an influential scientific adviser to the Labour politician and Minister Anthony Crosland.

Publications

  • Education, Economy, and Society: a reader in the sociology of education (1961 )
  • Trends in British Society Since 1900. A guide to the changing social structure of Britain (1972 )
  • Social Class and Educational Opportunity ( 1973) with JE Floud and FM Martin
  • Heredity and Environment (1977 )
  • Power and Ideology in Education ( 1977) ( with Jerome Karabel )
  • Change in British society: based on the Reith Lectures (1978 )
  • Decline of donnish Dominion: the British academic professions in the twentieth century ( 1992)
  • No discouragement: An Autobiography (1996 )
  • Twentieth-century British Social Trends ( 2000) ( with Josephine Webb)

Literature on Halsey

  • Colin Crouch / A. F. Heath ( Ed. ), Social research and social reform: essays in honor of AH Halsey (1992 )
  • George Smith / Teresal Smith: AH Halsey: Oxford as a base for social research and educational reform. In: Oxford Review of Education, vol 32 /2006. H. 1, pp. 105-126.
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