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(2010) New social connections, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In 1945, at the end of WWII, there was only one person in Britain, Morris Ginsberg, who held an appointment as Professor of Sociology. By 2001, according to a survey conducted by A.H. Halsey (2004: 225–32), there were 199 serving and 37 retired professors of sociology. Halsey threw his net widely, counting as sociologists persons who held posts in Social Policy, and others on the fringes of the subject, but nonetheless the figures testify to a truly remarkable expansion.
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Banton, M. (2010)., Aspirations and opportunities: a career in sociology, in J. Burnett, S. Jeffers & G. Thomas (eds.), New social connections, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-179.
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