Researching War-time Evacuation with Belmont Primary School Children

The Lancashire village of Belmont was created at the start of the nineteenth century to house workers for the bleaching and dyeing works built by industrialist Thomas Ryecroft and landowner Rev. Charles Wright. By the 1930s it had been incorporated into Turton Urban District and although very much rural still functioned as an industrial village. The 1939 National Register records that the majority of the population was working in the local bleach works or paper mill with just 10% farmers or workers on the land. It had a tiny school with just 75 pupils, which was more than doubled in size by the arrival of 80 infants from Temple School, Manchester in September 1939. This was Belmont’s quota of Turton’s allocation of 1,600 evacuees. Today the village is technically part of Blackburn with Darwen, and the parish consists of around 300 homes. It has a lively primary school with a good reputation for supporting pupils with disabilities and high-quality work in the Arts.

La “Teoría Crítica del Discurso” como herramienta metodológica para la investigación en teoría social

En este trabajo daremos forma a una metodología particular dentro del trabajo en teoría social, llamada "Teoría Crítica del Discurso". Esta metodología se inscribe dentro de la discusión abierta en los últimos años acerca de los modos y técnicas de trabajo teórico en las ciencias sociales, y resulta de una combinación entre la Historia Conceptual, la Teoría Crítica y el Análisis Discursivo. Se estudiará especialmente el antecedente de la corriente conocida como Análisis Crítico del Discurso o ACD, de Norman Fairclough y Ruth Wodak, y se pasará revista a los aportes de autores fundamentales de la teoría sociológica crítica a las reflexiones en torno al lenguaje y el discurso, como ser Max Horkheimer, Charles Wright Mills, Herbert Marcuse, Alvin Gouldner y Jürgen Habermas.

Heuristic Potentials of the Sociological Imagination

The concept of sociological imagination, originally proposed by Charles Wright Mill, is a classic of Sociology. This paper aims to present and discuss the sociological imagination projecting its heuristic capacity in contemporary society, in which the digital is a novelty vis-a-vis the original social context that shaped this proposal. The results of this analysis allow concluding that there are some contemporary challenges to be considered in this crucial analytical proposal in Sociology.

Gothic Secret Histories and Representing Australian Colonial Deaths at Sea: The Case of Captain Charles Wright Harris and the Wreck of the SS Admella (1859)

Extant ephemera documenting the wreck of the SS Admella off the South Australian coast on 6 August 1859 offers a compelling story of real-life maritime calamity characterized by death and extraordinary heroism. The much less written about account, however, is the story lying in between ‘official accounts’ of the wreck, and those that emerged in the contemporary reports of the day, including a body of verse termed ‘Admella poetry’. Verse forms and telegraphic reports of the wreck appear to be at odds with other witness statements, and official records have corrupted details from either telegraphic reports or published survivor statements, or both. This re-reading of one of the key heroic fatalities in the story of the wreck of the SS Admella – 37-year-old Captain Charles Wright Harris, a passenger aboard the Admella – theorizes on his death at sea as mapping plural histories. I argue that the account of the event preserved as political and bureaucratic memory – and its counterpoint – the account of the event preserved in the popular press and Admella poems, characterizes an alternative Victorian cultural memory, a gothic secret history concerning the wreck of the SS Admella and colonial deaths at sea.

La experiencia mexicana de Charles Wright Mills

A principios de 1960 el sociólogo estadounidense C. Wright Mills visitó México para impartir un seminario en la UNAM. Ahí conoció a un grupo de intelectuales quienes como él estaban interesados en la construcción de una nueva izquierda en un contexto de entusiasmo y solidaridad con la revolución cubana que resultó ser determinante para Mills. El artículo argumenta que fueron las discusiones con Carlos Fuentes, Enrique González Pedrero, Víctor Flores Olea, Jaime García Terrés y Pablo González Casanova, entre otros, las que lo incitaron a viajar a Cuba para conocer de cerca el proceso revolucionario que era objeto del debate entre la izquierda internacional. El resultado de su visita a la isla sería el famoso libro Listen, Yankee, que muy pronto se convirtió en un best-seller en Estados Unidos, con una venta en semanas de cientos de miles de ejemplares. Pocos meses después el Fondo de Cultura Económica publicó el libro en español. Escucha, Yanqui sería el libro más vendido en 1961 y lectura obligada de la nueva izquierda latinoamericana. El artículo reconstruye, a través de las cartas entre Mills, Carlos Fuentes y Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, el proceso de edición de este libro que habría de ser el resultado más concreto del encuentro de Mills con sus amigos mexicanos.

The Fire That Breaks

The Fire that Breaks traces Gerard Manley Hopkins’s continuing and pervasive influence among writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not only do the essays explore responses to Hopkins by individual writers—including, among others, Virginia Woolf, Ivor Gurney, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott, Denise Levertov, John Berryman, Charles Wright, Maurice Manning, and Ron Hansen—but they also examine Hopkins’s substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, modern novelists, and contemporary poets whose work lies at the intersection of ecopoetry and theology. Combining essays by the world’s leading Hopkins scholars with essays by scholars from diverse fields, the collection examines both known and unexpected affinities. The Fire that Breaks is a persistent testimony to the lasting, continuing impact of Hopkins on poetry in English.

Charles Wright

Charles Wright was born in West Tennessee. During his youth, his father’s work as a civil engineer for the Tennessee Valley Authority required that the family move frequently, first to Corinth, Mississippi, and eventually to three Appalachian locations—Kingsport, Tennessee; Hiwassee Dam, North Carolina; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After graduating from Davidson College in 1957, Wright enlisted in the army; while stationed in Italy, he discovered Ezra Pound’s ...

CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS DAN TEORI POWER ELITE: MEMBACA KONTEKS DAN PEMETAAN TEORI SOSIOLOGI POLITIK TENTANG KELAS ELITE KEKUASAAN

This study aims to explain the paradigm of power elite theory by Charles Wright Mills (C. Wright Mills, henceforth) in relation to the context of mapping the political sociology theory of the elite class in the United States. The method employed in this study was library research. Based on the literature review, it is concluded that three groups of political elites in the United States according to C. Wright Mills controlled the political and power arena consisting of the bureaucratic elite, business elite, and military elite. Second, the middle and lower classes are often exploited in the interests of the elite in politics and struggle for class power in the United States. Genealogical and other external factors greatly influence the birth and development of elite power generation in the United States. The theory is eventually in contact with the theory of pluralism that has long-lived among American societies. This literature study can be a catalyst showing how political theories and sociology compete each other to seize dominance in the political and social arena, especially in a developed country like the United States.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um021v4i22019p073