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Jennifer Platt

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Masters Sociology University of Oxford
Bachelors Sociology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Jennifer Platt FAcSS is a sociologist who is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex, where she taught from 1964 to 2002. She has been President of the British Sociological Association in 1987–89, and edited its journal Sociology for 1985–87. She was a member of the International Sociological Association’s executive from 1994–2002. Her research interests in the history of sociology have been reflected in her terms as Secretary and President of the ISA’s Research Committee on the History of Sociology, as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on the History of Sociology, In 2002 she became an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her main publications include: The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure, 1969, ; Realities of Social Research, Sussex University Press, 1976; A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960, Cambridge University Press, 1996; and The British Sociological Association: a Sociological History, SociologyPress, 2003.

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Integrating the Individual and the Organisation (1964) (1348)
The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1970) (508)
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School (1990) (286)
“Case Study” in American Methodological Thought (1992) (265)
On Interviewing One's Peers (1981) (176)
Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 1 Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research (1981) (166)
The development of the 'participant observation' method in sociology: origin myth and history (1983) (101)
The history of the interview (2002) (93)
The British Sociological Association: a sociological history (2003) (63)
The Affluent Worker and the Thesis of Embourgeoisement: Some Preliminary Research Findings (1967) (46)
Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research: The Missing Link (1985) (39)
The Chicago school and firsthand data (1994) (31)
Realities of social research: An empirical study of British sociologists (1976) (31)
Affluence and the French Worker in the Fourth Republic (1968) (29)
Doing Sociological Research (1978) (28)
Functionalism and the Survey: The Relation of Theory and Method (1986) (27)
Realities of social research (1977) (26)
Making them count: How effective has official encouragement of quantitative methods been in British sociology? (2012) (24)
Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 2 Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research (1981) (24)
The Women's Movement and British Journal Articles, 1950—2004 (2007) (21)
A brief history of the ISA : 1948-1997 (1998) (20)
How distinctive are Canadian research methods (2006) (20)
The United States Reception of Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method (1995) (19)
Social research in Bethnal Green: An evaluation of the work of the Institute of Community Studies (1971) (18)
Experiment in Industrial Democracy (1969) (16)
British Sociological Textbooks from 1949 (2008) (16)
Migration and the Denationalization of Science (1993) (16)
Middle Class Families (1970) (16)
Has Funding Made a Difference to Research Methods? (1996) (15)
Oral history: Validating contributions of elders. (2004) (15)
“Acting as a switchboard”: Mrs. Ethel Sturges Dummer’s role in sociology (1992) (15)
The History of the British Sociological Association (2002) (14)
Women in the British Sociological Labour Market, 1960-1995 (2000) (13)
Research Policy in British Higher Education and its Sociological Assumptions (1988) (13)
Marriage and Work in America (1972) (12)
Fifty years of the International Social Science Council (2002) (12)
The Puritan Family (1971) (11)
Some Issues in Comparative, Macro and International Work in the History of Sociology (2007) (10)
Women's and men's careers in British sociology. (2004) (9)
Some Problems in Measuring the Jointness of Conjugal Role-Relationships (1969) (9)
Social research in Bethnal Green (1971) (9)
Using journal articles to measure the level of quantification in national sociologies (2016) (8)
The History of the Social Sciences Since 1945: Sociology (2010) (7)
Characteristics of Inmates Who Initiate Hunger Strikes. (2017) (7)
Survey Data and Social Policy (1972) (6)
What Should be Done about the History of British Sociology (2005) (6)
Producing ethnographies: workplace ethnographies in history. (2013) (6)
The history and development of sociological social research methods (2010) (5)
The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction and British Sociology (2014) (5)
The Phenomenon of Sociology: A Reader in the Sociology of Sociology (1974) (5)
The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behavior. Cambridge Studies in Sociology, 1. (1969) (5)
Variations in Answers to Different Questions on Perceptions of Class (1971) (5)
Recent ASA Presidents and ‘Top’ Journals: Observed Publication Patterns, Alleged Cartels and Varying Careers (2016) (5)
Demography in Canada in the twentieth century (2003) (4)
Forced Migration and Scientific Change: The Vienna Circle in the United States and Empirical Research Methods in Sociology (1996) (4)
The Sociological Imagination, ‘On intellectual craftsmanship’ and Mills’s influence on research methods (2013) (3)
The Emerging Worker: Equality and Conflict in the Mass Consumption Society (1973) (3)
Symbiosis or Parasitism: Ethics and Practice in the Social System of Sociology (2000) (3)
Fragmentation, Social Theory, and Feminism: Sociology in the United Kingdom (1997) (3)
The Social Science Research Council's 1940s restudy of Robert Angell's cases fromThe Family Encounters the Depression (1992) (3)
The Social Construction of ‘Positivism’ and Its Significance in British Sociology, 1950–80 (2018) (2)
[Review] Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster, ed. (2000) Case study method: key issues, key texts (2001) (2)
The Class Situation of Manual Workers: The United States and Britain@@@The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure@@@The Working Class@@@Working Class Suburb@@@Class, Race and Labour: Working Class Consciousness in Detroit@@@Blue Collar Life (1970) (2)
Some issues in intellectual method and approach (2003) (1)
Social relations and intellectual evaluation in self and peer assessment of Sociology Students (2001) (1)
A Comment on: The Relation of Theory and Method: Causal Relatedness, Historical Contingency and beyond (1988) (1)
Social Science Learned Societies and Professional Associations (2015) (1)
National Needs for the Sociological Archive - and the British Situation (2001) (1)
Una institucionalizacion problematica: la primera Sociologia britanica (2001) (1)
A Sociological Portrait (1974) (1)
Response to Joint Review by Ray Pahl (2009) (1)
‘Social Stratification in Industrial Society’ (1960) (0)
Book Reviews (1982) (0)
ISA presidents and their presidential addresses (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
Book Review: Emerging Sociology: An International Perspective (1994) (0)
Parents in Modern America (1971) (0)
Research Methods: Newer Models (1971) (0)
Our studies, ourselves: Sociologists' lives and work (2005) (0)
ISA Presidents and their presidential addresses: the data on individual presidents (2012) (0)
The specificity of Québec and Canada in sociological methodologies (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1985) (0)
Peer and self-assessment: some issues and problems (2000) (0)
Book Review: Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture 1919-1953, by Olaf F. Larson and Julie N. Zimmerman. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 341 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0-271-02298-1 (2005) (0)
Auto)biographies as Data for the History of Sociology (2017) (0)
A Case for the Case Study@@@A Case for Case Studies: An Immigrant's Journal (1993) (0)
Methods of Organisational Research (1967) (0)
Value Judgements and Policy Recommendations (1971) (0)
Comment on Jean-Michel Chapoulie/3 (2009) (0)
Bureaucracy@@@Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View (1971) (0)
Migration and Globalization in Intellectual Life: a Case Study of the Post-1956 Exodus from Hungary (1999) (0)
Editorial Introduction: John d Brewer and Jennifer Platt (2011) (0)
Where is the boundary between sociology and not-sociology? (2016) (0)
Transatlantic Voyages and National Sociologies (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Introduction (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1985) (0)
Recent British Sociology@@@A History of British Empirical Sociology (1983) (0)
Academic Publishing and its Key Roles. Part II (2014) (0)
Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball. Family and Community in Ireland. (Third edition, with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, and Tony Varley.) Ennis, Ireland: CLASP Press, 2001. 101 _ 417 pp. £26 (cloth). ISBN 1-900-545-13-6 (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
A Promising Agenda: Simmel in American Sociological Thought (1998) (0)
Peter Simonson (Ed.). Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading “Personal Influence.”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006. 342 pp. $47 (hardcover). ISBN 1-4129-5093-7. $34 (softcover). ISBN 1-4129-5 (2009) (0)
Recent ASA Presidents and ‘Top’ Journals: Observed Publication Patterns, Alleged Cartels and Varying Careers (2016) (0)
Social Relations and Intellectual Evaluation in Self and Peer Assessment (2017) (0)
Approaches to Sociology: An Introduction to Major Trends in British Sociology (1974) (0)
Book Review: Interviewer versus Study Director? (2002) (0)
Continuities in the Language of Social Research (1973) (0)
Book Review: Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production (2015) (0)
Review essay (2000) (0)
The Sociology of Sociology (1972) (0)
Large Topics and Hard Methodological Decisions (2012) (0)
Book Review: The Student Teacher's Handbook, by A. I. Schwebel, B. L. Schwebel, C. R. Schwebel, and M. Schwebel, (2nd ed.), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991. 252 pp. $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper (1993) (0)
Book Review: Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts (2001) (0)
Research Note (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (1986) (0)
Book Reviews (1991) (0)
Résumés/Resúmenes (2008) (0)
Ethel Sturges Dummer (2001) (0)
Introduction (2002) (0)
[Review] Anthony J. Blasi (2005) Diverse histories of American sociology; John Germov and Tara Renae McGee (2005) Histories of Australian sociology (2008) (0)
The Changing Journal Publishing System (2014) (0)
Research Methods: The Old Tradition (1971) (0)
Peter L. Berger. Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011. 264 pp. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐61614‐389‐3. (2012) (0)
Conclusion (2008) (0)
Fresh Work on the History of French Empirical Sociology (2010) (0)
Chicago methods: reputations and realities 1 (2019) (0)

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