British Facts
Rosalind Mitchison, 19 September 1985
Social Trends 15
edited by Deo Ramprakash.
HMSO, 208 pp., £19.95, January 1985,0 11 620102 9 Show More
edited by Deo Ramprakash.
HMSO, 208 pp., £19.95, January 1985,
State of the World 1984: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society
by Lester Brown.
Norton, 252 pp., £7.95, December 1984,0 393 30176 1 Show More
by Lester Brown.
Norton, 252 pp., £7.95, December 1984,
The State of the Nation: An Atlas of Britain in the Eighties
by Stephen Fothergill and Jill Vincent, edited by Michael Kidron.
Heinemann/Pan, 128 pp., £12.50, May 1985,0 435 35288 1 Show More
by Stephen Fothergill and Jill Vincent, edited by Michael Kidron.
Heinemann/Pan, 128 pp., £12.50, May 1985,
British Social Attitudes: The 1985 Report
edited by Roger Jowell and Sharon Witherspoon.
Gower, 260 pp., £18.50, July 1985,9780566007385 Show More
edited by Roger Jowell and Sharon Witherspoon.
Gower, 260 pp., £18.50, July 1985,
“... These books all set out to tell us about ourselves, and to do it by quantification. Their statements are based on economic statistics, demography, official and unofficial measurements, including the measurement of opinion. Some of their conclusions will surprise, for no one reader can expect to have covered the full range of social activity. Their quality must depend on the quality of the ‘facts’ they elicit ... ”
