The social consequences of industrial decline : a case study of an East Cleveland mining community
This thesis is based on research into the factors determining the development of consciousness among the population of the East Cleveland mining community of Lingdale, which has experienced a steady decline in its dominant industry of ironstone mining from the founding of the community in 1872 to the closure of the mine in 1962. Theoretical contributions on power, consciousness and ideology are reviewed and discussed. Aspects of these contributions are then applied to the analysis of the case-study material. An examination of contemporary work on spatial and temporal factors in sociological theory is undertaken as part of an attempt to explicate the relationship between agency and structure. Data are derived from both documentary sources and extended interviews with elderly residents of Lingdale. Problems associated with such a methodology are discussed. These data sources are employed to describe the social and institutional development of the mining community and its mine. In examining the community the influence of the mineowners, landlords and the petite-bourgeoisie, who are depicted as agents of these elites, is analysed. The creation and maintenance of a paternalistic ideology and control of the significant
Cornish, Steven Richard
Sociology
The social consequences of industrial decline : a case study of an East Cleveland mining community. This thesis is based on research into the factors determining the development of consciousness among the population of the East Cleveland mining community of Lingdale, which has experienced a steady decline in its dominant industry of ironstone mining from the founding of the community in 1872 to the closure of the mine in 1962. Theoretical contributions on power, consciousness and ideology are reviewed and discussed. Aspects of these contributions are then applied to the analysis of the case-study material. An examination of contemporary work on spatial and temporal factors in sociological theory is undertaken as part of an attempt to explicate the relationship between agency and structure. Data are derived from both documentary sources and extended interviews with elderly residents of Lingdale. Problems associated with such a methodology are discussed. These data sources are employed to describe the social and institutional development of the mining community and its mine. In examining the community the influence of the mineowners, landlords and the petite-bourgeoisie, who are depicted as agents of these elites, is analysed. The creation and maintenance of a paternalistic ideology and control of the significant
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