Marie and Otto Neurath: “Good Fellows in Science and Love”

This article presents the story of a partnership with a major impact on the development of visual means of communicating social science findings as a means to facilitate universal participatory democracy. It aims to highlight the neglected role of Marie Neurath as data “transformer” in the origins of the visual language of ISOTYPE. It locates the partnership in the context of the politically and culturally turbulent times of anti-Semitism and forced migration during the middle decades of the 20c, and highlights Marie’s contributions after the death of her partner. It concludes with a call for a more multifaceted and culturally inclusive picture of disciplinary history in the social sciences

Exiles in British sociology

We have all seen them, foreheads wrinkled like a ploughed field, pastel-shaded check summer shirts worn in winter, desks festooned with yellowed index cards covered in hieroglyphics, books like yours only in plainer covers and read more carefully, filthy cigarettes, an accent growing thicker with age. But we have all seen them too, the luxuriant thatch at seventy, the jacket and tie, the tidy desk, the London club and the house in the country, the pipe, the disdain for small talk made all the more intimidating by an English acquired somewhere between grammar school and Oxford. Self-contained in a way only the uprooted can be, mysterious because you never knew what questions to ask them, emissaries from worlds they have lost and you have never known: the Polish gentry, the central European peasantry, Jewish merchants, German workers and, most puzzling of all, the continental European middle class

Hess: Tocqueville and Beaumont : Book Review

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Choosing a house

Economists and planners assume that the choices made by house purchasers are rationally and optimally made. However, psychologists know that decisionmaking in real life involves the chooser in complex and difficult conditions. In addition, the methods used to ascertain preferences and needs do not seem to be reliable indicators of what people actually choose. The study to be described, although confirming the problems which beset house buyers when choosing a house, and planners when attempting to decide what people need and prefer, also appears to show that actual purchase behaviour itself is a poor indicator of what people really want.

Researching race relations Myrdal's American dilemma from a human rights perspective

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