Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-c

These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A di

Principles of Social Change is written for those who are impassioned and driven by social justice issues in their communities and seek practical solutions to su

This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the ext