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The Institute was considered a highly innovative sociological "phenomenon" in its heyday, and was unencumbered by a large bureaucracy of the sort that prompted Young to create it—although this meant that Young and the Institute were constantly
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Young served as the Institute's director until his death in 2002. In 2005, the Institute of Community Studies merged with the Mutual Aid Centre (another Young-founded organisation) and was renamed The
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The Institute for Community Studies at The Young Center inaugurated its relaunch with a study begun in 2019 and completed and published during the
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that works with communities, organisations, and policymakers to effect social change. It was founded in 1953 and is based in Toynbee Hall,
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The early Institute's stated purpose was "to examine the interaction of the family, the community and the
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inspired Young to create the Institute of Community Studies in 1953. The Institute was to be a
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Community Studies as one of its constituent parts in 2019, with financial support from
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of the Institute, made clear the resulting social costs. The Institute challenged
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rebuilding in the UK and abroad. The Institute of Community Studies was an
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Family and Social Change in an African City: A study of rehousing in Lagos
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The Symmetrical Family: A study of work and leisure in the London Region
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for building nonprofit organisations to meet social needs, including
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The Evolution of a Community: A Study of Dagenham after forty years
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heard the complaints, but did nothing about them because they were
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An evaluation of the work of the Institute of Community Studies
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Organisations based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Notable publications by the Institute of Community Studies
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as the Institute of Community Studies in response to the
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The Family Life of Old People: An inquiry in East London
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As an economist for the Labour Party, Young wrote the
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The original Institute was founded in 1953 by British
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on housing conditions in 1952, he lamented that "the
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East London
The Young Foundation
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British
non-profit
research institute
East London
Mutual Aid Centre
The Young Foundation
Michael Young
community-based participatory researchers
Labour
economist
sociologist
Michael Young
bureaucratic
working-class
social housing
estates
East London
Labour Party manifesto
Let Us Face the Future
July 1945 general election
swept Labour into power
welfare state of post-war Britain
Sociology

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