By John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor

in accordance with the re-discovery of a misplaced sociological venture led through Norbert Elias on the college of Leicester, this booklet re-visits the undertaking: The Adjustment of younger staff to paintings occasions and grownup Roles. Norbert Elias's misplaced examine uses the interview booklets documenting the lives of approximately 900 Leicester college leavers on the time, to offer a distinct account of Elias's purely foray into large-scale, publicly funded learn. masking all elements of the study from the advance of the learn suggestion, the choice and administration of the examine staff, the fieldwork, Elias's theoretical paintings to the last word loss of life of the learn undertaking, this publication makes an important contribution to our knowing of present Eliasian texts via introducing this undertaking to a much wider viewers and investigating and employing Elias's theoretical paintings to the components of adlescent and faculty to paintings transitions. laying off new mild on Elias's idea, when exploring questions of method and the relevance of older study to trendy questions, this booklet might be of curiosity to social theorists, in addition to sociologists with pursuits in examine method and the background of sociology.

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