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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824767103321

Autore

Day Graham

Titolo

Making sense of Wales [[electronic resource] ] : a sociological perspective / / by Graham Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2002

ISBN

1-299-20060-5

0-7083-2310-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Politics and society in Wales

Disciplina

306.0942909045

Soggetti

Sociology - Wales

Wales Social conditions 20th century

Wales Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published on behalf of the Social Science Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Visions of Wales; Wales Remade? The Transformation of Economic Structures; 'An Ideal Research Site': Wales and the Problem of Development; Enclaves, Archipelagos and Regions: Rethinking the Regional Problem; Divided and Dividing Wales? Explorations in Geography and Class; Beyond the Basics; Rural Wales: The Sociological Account; Contemporary Rural Wales: Via Development to Dependence?; Debating the Transformation: A Welsh Economic Miracle?; Language, Culture and Nation: Wales in the Melting Pot; Nation, Nationalism and Ethnicity

Conclusion References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume gives an account of the main changes that have taken place in Welsh society since the 1950's, as well as analysing the major effort to interpret those changes.