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20 Century Br Hist. 2015;26(2):203-24. doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwu063.
This article examines the East London-based Institute of Community Studies, and its founder, Michael Young, to show that sociology and social research offered avenues for left-wing political expression in the 1950s. Young, who had previously been Head of the Labour Party Research Department during the Attlee government, drew upon existing currents of psychological and sociological research to emphasize the continuing relevance of the extended family in industrial society and to offer a model of socialist citizenship, solidarity and mutual support not tied to productive work. Young and his colleagues at the Institute of Community Studies promoted the supportive kinship networks of the urban working class, and an idealized conception of the relationships between women, to suggest that family had been overlooked by the left and should be reclaimed as a progressive force. The article shows that the Institute's sociological work was informed by a pre-existing concern with family as a model for cooperative socialism, and suggests that sociology and social research should be seen as important sources of political commentary for scholars of post-war politics.
本文考察了位于东伦敦的社区研究协会及其创始人迈克尔·扬，以表明社会学和社会研究在20世纪50年代为左翼政治表达提供了途径。扬曾在艾德礼政府时期担任工党研究部主任，他借鉴了现有的心理学和社会学研究潮流，强调大家庭在工业社会中的持续相关性，并提供了一种与生产性工作无关的社会主义公民身份、团结和相互支持的模式。扬及其在社区研究协会的同事宣扬城市工人阶级的支持性亲属网络，以及对女性之间关系的理想化概念，以表明家庭被左翼忽视，应被重新塑造为一股进步力量。本文表明，该协会的社会学工作受到了将家庭作为合作社会主义模式的既有关注的影响，并表明社会学和社会研究应被视为战后政治学者重要的政治评论来源。
