AH Halsey

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Albert Henry "Chelly" Halsey (born April 13, 1923 in London - † October 14, 2014 ) was a British sociologist and professor of social and administrative sciences at Oxford University.

Life

Born the son of a railroad worker in the London borough of Kentish Town , Halsey grew up in a working-class family who moved to Corby in Northamptonshire as a child. There he got a free place in the grammar school, which he left at 16. During the war he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force . After the end of the war he enrolled to study sociology at the London School of Economics .

As a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, he supervised the doctoral students Ralf Dahrendorf and David Lockwood, among others . From 1962 he taught as Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of Oxford and was also a Fellow at Nuffield College .

As a supporter of "ethical socialism" he became an influential scientific advisor to Labor politician and minister Anthony Crosland . Through his work on education reform, he played an active role in the development of educational policy in the UK and internationally. As Croslands research consultant, he founded the School (Comprehensive school) in the UK. In 1993 he attacked his own party for decades of failure in school education and in teaching moral values. The left is responsible for poor teaching in schools and for trends that lead to broken families.

In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1995 he was accepted into the British Academy .

Publications

  • Education, Economy, and Society: a reader in the sociology of education (1961)
  • Trends in British Society Since 1900. A guide to the changing social structure of Britain (1972)
  • Social Class and Educational Opportunity (1957) with JE Floud and FM Martin
  • Heredity and Environment (1977)
  • Power and Ideology in Education (1977) (with Jerome Karabel)
  • Change in British society: based on the Reith lectures (1978)
  • Decline of Donnish Dominion: the British academic professions in the twentieth century (1992)
  • No Discouragement: An Autobiography (1996)
  • Twentieth-century British Social Trends (2000) (with Josephine Webb)

Literature on Halsey

  • Colin Crouch / AF Heath (Eds.) Social research and social reform: essays in honor of AH Halsey (1992)
  • George Smith / Teresal Smith: AH Halsey: Oxford as a base for social research and educational reform . In: Oxford Review of Education , vol. 32/2006. H. 1, pp. 105-126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AH Halsey - obituary. Obituary in The Daily Telegraph, October 17, 2014 (accessed October 18, 2014).
  2. ^ Daily Mail of February 24, 1993: We failed our youngsters says Labor School Guru
  3. ↑ Member profile ( memento of October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved October 18, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Halsey, AH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halsey, Albert Henry (full name); Halsey, Chelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2014