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In the Glen of the Levern
Jim has taken us along, to witness in our minds the destructive changes that the Industrial Revolution wrought on the two streams that flowed into, and through, his home town, and he has also given an evocative reminiscence of growing up in Barrhead, Scotland, just before and after the Second World war. He took us from an early career of animal husbandry (rabbits) to the war ---introducing along the way a number of friends, family and street characters. The war brought out personal recollections of the building of the family air raid shelter, and the Clydebank Blitz. Central to all this was the garden that Jimmy's father established, and a greenhouse built from bits and pieces, more often found and scrounged than not. Among other things, Jim's descriptions pointed up the strong rural elements that accompanied life in those days, and of the complete absence of electronic gadgetry that too often dominates life in the twenty-first century. It is a glimpse into a world that really doesn't exist any more, but is nonetheless very familiar to those who grew up in the nineteen- thirties, forties and fifties.
Becoming Bicultural
The author's story of being Pakeha and working in the Maori world. A personal testament to further what he sees as the unique task before every New Zealander achieving a bicultural destiny.
Sociologies of New Zealand
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the various sociologies of New Zealand from the late 19th century to the present day. Opening with previously undocumented insights into the history of proto-sociology in New Zealand, the book then explores the parallel stories of the discipline both as a mainstream subject in Sociology departments and as a more diffuse ‘sociology’ within other university units .The rise and fall of departments, specialties and research networks is plotted and the ways in which external and internal factors have shaped these is explained. Different generations of sociologists, including many immigrants, are each shown to have left their unique mark on New Zealand sociology. The author demonstrates that the rising interest in topics specific to New Zealand has been accompanied by increasing capacities to contribute to world sociology. This book will have inter-disciplinary appeal across the social sciences and provides a valuable study of the development of sociology in a semi-peripheral country.
National Service
I was just one of many thousands of healthy and fit young men living in the U.K. during the 40's and 50's who were given no choice (other than prison) and who were conscripted by the British government to serve in the “Armed Forces” for two years of their lives – it was called National Service. This was happening at a time in the lives of these young men, that I like to refer to as “the beginning of manhood years.” Most of us had just completed a trade apprenticeship, or some lengthy training in a specific vocation, and there were also some of us who had earned a university degree. We were, for the first time in our lives earning a decent wage, and could now think of things further...
E Tipu E Rea
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Child Rearing Patterns in New Zealand
"Over a two-year period Jane and James Ritchie and their colleagues interviewed the mothers of 151 four-year-olds representing all aspects of New Zealand society. As responsible social scientists they interviewed in depth, but the result of their research is not a dry treatise but an easily read analysis of a little recorded aspect of New Zealand society." -- inside book.
Shocco Tales
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