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Changing Scotland

Society, Politics and Identity
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025

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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity

  • Analyses Scotland’s social transformation in the key decades from the 1970s
  • Studies shifts in economy, industry and social class
  • Draws on rich data sources, including the Scottish Government Statistical Service (ScotStat), Registrar-General for Scotland and British Household Panel Study
  • Uses findings from General Household Survey, Labour Force Survey; Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys, and British Social Attitudes Surveys
Twenty-five years of a Scottish parliament presents the opportunity to take stock of a new Scotland, to be seen in the context of wider social, political and cultural changes occurring over the previous fifty years. The book draws upon a wealth of empirical material to enable us to ‘read’ this changing Scotland. The time-frame is crucial. We can now see that the transformative moment lay in the long decade of the late 1960s and 1970s, when social, economic and political processes began to transform Scotland in a radical way. Fifty years on, we live in a quite different country. Scotland sits at the nexus of three key concepts: civil society, nation and state. This book tells that story, explains how it came about and its legacy in understanding this new Scotland.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Figures and Tables

    vii
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    Preface

    xi
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    1 Social Change in Scotland

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    2 What is Scotland?

    13
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    3 Transformations

    39
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    4 Demography

    71
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    5 Materiality

    111
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    6 National Identity: Who Have We Become?

    143
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    7 Politics in a Cold Country

    173
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    8 The Cultural Turn

    207
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    9 Where To Now?

    241
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    Bibliography

    272
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    Index

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October 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781399534024
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304
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399534024
eBook ISBN: 9781399534024
Keywords for this book
Scotland; Scottish history; Scottish Studies; British history; modernist studies; Social Change; Sociology; Nationalism; Identity; 1970s
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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