Imaginations:Fifty Years of Essex Sociology

The Sociology Department at the University of Essex was one of the founding departments and is a leading international sociology department. Through fifty contributions from past and present, the students and lecturers in the department tell the story of its history, its ideas and its community. It provides an unusual insight into the workings of a British university department as well as the shape of modern British sociology. Illustrated throughout and packed with stories and information, the book is a history, a memoir, and a keepsake.