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Lecture 5: Self and Society
The decades between the late 1940s and the late 1970s are widely seen as the heyday of social science (and of social democracy), though usually from the point of view of educated or cultivated elites. This lecture seeks evidence of the ‘sociological imagination’ in everyday life, in conditions of ‘affluence’, ‘permissiveness’ and a therapeutic society.
Date:
19 February 2026, 17:00
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
South School
Speaker:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
