Ray Pahl
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Raymond Edward Pahl was a British sociologist, best known for his studies of social interaction, polarisation, work and friendship in suburban and post-industrial communities. Biography He was born in London, and attended St Albans School before studying at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and then the London School of Economics.
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Published Works
- The Social Construction of Communities (1972) (875)
- Divisions of labour (1988) (621)
- Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today (2006) (403)
- The Rural-Urban Continuum (1968) (275)
- Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns (1970) (261)
- Personal Communities: Not Simply Families of ‘Fate’ or ‘Choice’ (2004) (243)
- THE RURAL‐URBAN CONTINUUM1 (1966) (154)
- Is the emperor naked? Some questions on the adequacy of sociological theory in urban and regional research (1989) (149)
- Between family and friends: a longitudinal study of friendship choice. (2005) (144)
- Some remarks on informal work, social polarization and the social structure* (1988) (138)
- Employment, work and the domestic division of labour (1980) (103)
- The search for social cohesion: from Durkheim to the European Commission (1991) (92)
- Urbs in Rure: The Metropolitan Fringe in Hertfordshire (1965) (90)
- On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches (1988) (85)
- Homeworking: Myths and realities (1987) (84)
- Are all Communities Communities in the Mind? (2005) (83)
- Whose City?: And Further Essays on Urban Society (1976) (70)
- Patterns of urban life (1971) (68)
- After Success: Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity (1995) (66)
- Readings in urban sociology (1969) (65)
- Back to nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America (1971) (62)
- Family, Friends, and Personal Communities: Changing Models‐in‐the‐Mind (2010) (54)
- Does Class Analysis without Class Theory have a Promising Future?: A Reply to Goldthorpe and Marshall (1993) (51)
- CLASS AND COMMUNITY IN ENGLISH COMMUTER VILLAGES (1965) (50)
- Work outside employment: some preliminary speculations (1979) (49)
- The Coming Corporatism (1975) (46)
- Does Jobless Mean Workless? Unemployment and Informal Work (1987) (41)
- Towards a more significant sociology of friendship (2002) (39)
- Household Work Strategies in an Economic Recession (1985) (38)
- Urban Social Theory and Research (1969) (33)
- The Changing Sociological Construct of the Family (1988) (33)
- Whose city?: And other essays on sociology and planning (1972) (28)
- Inequality and Quiescence: A Continuing Conundrum (2007) (28)
- Managers and their wives: A study of career and family relationships in the middle class (1973) (25)
- The Restructuring of Capital, the Local Political Economy and Household Work Strategies (1985) (25)
- New rich, old rich, stinking rich? (1990) (23)
- THE POLITICS OF WORK (1985) (22)
- Some sceptical comments on the relationship between social support and well‐being (2003) (21)
- Social Statistics and the City. (1970) (21)
- Spatial policy problems of the British economy: Poverty and the urban system (1971) (19)
- Division of Labour (1986) (18)
- Polarisation, Unemployment and All Forms of Work1 (1986) (18)
- Market Success and Social Cohesion (2001) (18)
- Rethinking Friendship (2018) (17)
- Forms of Work and Privatisation on the Isle of Sheppey (1986) (17)
- Rigid Flexibilities? - Work between Men and Women (1993) (14)
- Stratification, the relation between states and urban and regional development (1977) (13)
- Hertfordshire commuter villages: from Geography to Sociology (2008) (11)
- R.E. Pahl replies (1991) (10)
- The Outlook Tower: Essays on Urbanization in Memory of Patrick Geddes@@@The City in Contemporary Perspective: Cross-National Research and New Directions in Theory (1978) (9)
- Friendship, Trust and Mutuality (2007) (8)
- Looking backwards and forwards: the UGC's review of sociology (1989) (8)
- A Perspective on Urban Sociology1 (1968) (8)
- Structures and Processes of Urban Life (1983) (7)
- Spatial structure and social structure (1968) (7)
- ‘Urban Managerialism’ Reconsidered (1982) (6)
- Working without Wages: Households and Gender in Modern Economies@@@Women and Property--Women as Property.@@@Divisions of Labour. (1986) (6)
- THE RURAL‐URBAN CONTINUUM: A REPLY TO EUGENLUPRI (1967) (5)
- Problems of Modern Society (1974) (5)
- Comment on Kolankiewicz (1996) (4)
- Workers' dilemmas: recruitment, reliability and repeated exchange: an analysis of urban social networks and labour circulation (1998) (3)
- Instrumentality and Community in the Process of Urbanization (1973) (3)
- Does jobless mean workless? A comparative approach to the survival strategies of unemployed people (1992) (3)
- Book Review: Communes, Sociology and Society (1978) (2)
- HOUSING, WORK AND LIFE STYLE (1989) (2)
- HOUSEHOLDS, WORK AND POLITICS: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIVISIONS OF LABOUR IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL PRODUCTION (1986) (2)
- Neither angels in marble nor rebels in red: privatization and working-class consciousness* (1988) (2)
- Cities Symposium: A Comment (1973) (2)
- Book Review: Social Justice and the City by DAVID HARVEY. London: Arnold. 1973. pp. 336. £3·25 (1974) (2)
- SOCIAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORT: HOW TO USE SOCIAL RESEARCH IN TRANSPORT POLICY MAKING. PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT WEST DEAN, CHICHESTER, 14-17 SEPTEMBER 1980 (1982) (1)
- Grant, Jill, "The Drama of Democracy: Contention and Dispute in Community Planning" (Book Review) (1996) (1)
- Book Review: Race, Community and Conflict (1967) (1)
- Book Reviews: Internal Structure of the City: Readings on Space and Environment. By LARRY S. BOURNE (New York, London, Oxford University Press, 1971 ). viii + 528 pp. £2.70 (1972) (1)
- The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics (Cornell Paperback No. 52) (1968) (1)
- Social divisions: Economic decline and social structural change - Morris,L (1996) (1)
- Book Review: Identities and Social Change since 1940: The Politics of Method (2011) (1)
- The Death of Class@@@Class Stratification: A Comparative Perspective@@@Social Change and the Middle Classes (1997) (1)
- Classics in human geography revisited (1996) (1)
- John Rex, Race, Colonialism and the City. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xx + 310 pp. Bibliography. £3·95. (1974) (0)
- Geographic Perspectives on Urban Systems (1972) (0)
- Bringing work to life (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1975) (0)
- Book Reviews (1984) (0)
- Houses and People: A Review of user studies at the the Building Research Station (1967) (0)
- Review of Working Hard and Making Do (2000) (0)
- Patterns of Urban Life in the Next Fifteen Years. (1976) (0)
- Gans, Herbert J., "People, Plans and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems" (Book Review) (1992) (0)
- The hidden economy: the context and control of borderline crime Stuart Henry (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews (1991) (0)
- Comparative Community Politics.Terry Nichols Clark (1977) (0)
- Cultural Theory - Thompson, M, Ellis, R, Wildavsky, A (1992) (0)
- Book Review: Social Theory for Planning by JoE BAILEY. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1975. pp. 167. £4·25 (cloth), £1·95 (paperback) (1975) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. The Nature of Friendship (2007) (0)
- Forms of Work and the Role of Self-Provisioning (1989) (0)
- LSE on social science - Sasson,H, Diamond,D (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- Book Review: God, Politics and the Future (1989) (0)
- Brian J. L. Berry (ed.), Urbanization and Counter Urbanization . London: Sage Publications, 1977. [Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol. II.] No price stated. (1980) (0)
- Review Symposium (1975) (0)
- Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS): the first three years (1998) (0)
- Trends in Social Geography (2019) (0)
- Evans, Bob, "Experts and Environmental Planning" (Book Review) (1996) (0)
- Book Review: Tim. Strangleman Work Identity at the End of the Line: Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, £55.00 hbk (ISBN: 1—40393—980—2), 224 pp (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews: Regional Planning and Development in Europe (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews (1992) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. Patterns of Friend-Making (2007) (0)
- Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships – By Geoffrey L. Greif (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Working Hard and Making Do (2000) (0)
- Social-Change And The Experience Of Unemployment - Gallie,D (1995) (0)
- Book Review: Town Planning in its Social Context by G. E. CHERRY. London: Leonard Hill Books. 1970. pp. 181. £2·10 (1971) (0)
- Towards a more significant sociology of friendship : Mysticism and ascetism (2002) (0)
- Working hard and making do (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews (1990) (0)
- The informal city - Laguerre,MS (1996) (0)
- The future of success (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (1988) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. Personal Communities Today (2007) (0)
- Book reviews. (1970) (0)
- Book Reviews (1993) (0)
- Book Review: The Sociology of Cities by J. Sirjamaki, Random House, 1964, pp. 328, $5.25 The Urban Process: Cities in Industrial Societies by L. Reissman, Free Press of Glencoe, 1964, pp. 255 (1966) (0)
- Book Reviews (1985) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. Capturing Personal Communities (2007) (0)
- Book Review: The Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development by Lewis Mumford, Seeker & Warburg, 1967, pp. 342, 50/- (1968) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Girls, Wives, Factory Lives@@@Sex Differences in Britain (1984) (0)
- Urban sociology and planning : urban social theory and research (1969) (0)
- APPENDIX. How We Carried Out Our Study (2007) (0)
- A rejoinder to Mingione and Hill—Réplique à Mingione et Hill (1977) (0)
- Changing Sociological Construct of the Family, 1930-1986 (2004) (0)
- Cullingworth, J. B., "Problems of an Urban Society" (3 Volumes) (Book Review) (1974) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
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