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    Name of Collection: University of Essex, Qualitative Research data
    URL of Collection: http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidata

    Name of Institution: University of Essex
    Institution URL: http://www.essex.ac.uk

    Description: Qualidata deals with the raw materials arising fom qualitative research within the social sciences. It is a clearing house, but also helps administrate the Nataional Social Policy and Social Change Collection at Essex. Datasets already deposited include: Peter Townsend's studies on care of older people in institutions, Family Life of Old People (1955) and The Last Refuge (1959); Paul Thompson's life-history interview studies comprising approximately 750 interviews from various projects including The Edwardians (1975); Ray Pahl's Isle of Sheppey Studies (1980s) and earlier investigations; Dennis Marsden and Brain Jackson's whole life's research papers including their studies for Education and the Working Class (1962); Jacqueline Burgoyne and David Clark's projects on Marriage, Re-marriage and Stepfamilies (1977) and Co-habitation (1985) Annette Lawson's 1980's study of Adultery: An Analysis of Love and Betrayal; John H. Goldthorpe et al's The Affluent Worker (1962) undertaken to test the thesis of working class embourgeoisement.

    Main language of the collection: English
    Type of Material: Report literature

 

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