This paper uses nationally representative survey data of adults Internet use in Britain to examine current patterns in the uptake of lifelong learning via the Internet. We develop and test a model that accounts for structure, agency and outcomes using structural equation modelling to address two questions: (1) how structure (as measured by age,…

The type and extent of female education in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century was characterized by social status. (DS)

Cites the causes that have led to renewed thinking of class warfare in Great Britain. Throws light on the situation by examining the strike movement of the year 1974. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Britain and Japan are shown to be two pioneers of industrialism who took different roads to power and wealth. Each society imbues an institution with its own values and meaning--the Japanese with the spirit of participative self-fulfillment, the British with acquisitive individualism with concern for one's neighbor. (MLW)

The role and structure of the "Open University" in Great Britain reflects basic social changes and attitudes. (JD)

This analysis of the British domestic situation comedy (sitcom) as a genre begins by noting that it is considered basically taxonomical, using the categories of character, narrative, and theme to develop understanding of its discursive strategies. Considered to be preliminary and tentative, the results of this analysis suggest that: (1) the sitcom…

Reports on three studies of playground fighting among elementary and middle school age students in Great Britain. Finds that the most common cause of fights were disputes over some aspect of a rule-governed game; teasing; retaliation to an accidental injury; and, to a lesser extent, disputes over space. (CFR)

The monograph examines British full-time adult students in the context of education and stratification systems of industrial society. It attempts to test propositions concerned with how a system of educational selection regulated the ambitions of the post-war generation, and how it inadvertently created widespread feelings of discontent. The…

Shows how current literature which attempts to explain racial and class struggle in Britain distorts the political reality by focusing on cultural rather than political and economic issues. Criticizes the work of John Rex for its incomplete analysis of the British social structure. (GC)

The Ljubljana seminar, whose background and working papers are presented in this volume, was an outcome of the United Nations' consideration of the problems of ethnic and linguistic minorities. The twenty-five papers cover topics such as the study of multinational societies; the protection of minorities and minority rights in Yugoslavia,…

This text combines a case-study approach with significant theoretical development to challenge existing explanations of occupational segregation. Chapter 1 reviews issues raised by the conceptual status of "gender" in attempting to explain women's and men's employment experience and introduces the study that forms the core of the…