Gordon Rattray Taylor
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| - | :The history of civilization is the history of a long [[war]]fare between the [[danger]]ous and powerful forces of the [[id]], and the various systems of [[taboo]]s and [[inhibition]]s which man has erected to control them. --''[[Sex In History]]'' (1964) -- [[Gordon Rattray Taylor]] | + | Gordon Rattray Taylor (1911-1981) |
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| + | A British author and broadcaster who served as a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London (1976-81). He was born in Eastbourne on January 11, 1911, and educated at Radley College, Trinity College, and Cambridge University. He worked as a journalist beginning in 1933 and in 1958 joined the British Broadcasting Company where he wrote and devised science television programs. In 1966 he became a full-time author. He had authored a number of books over his lifetime. Taylor died December, 7, 1981. | ||
| '''Gordon Rattray Taylor''' is a British writer and social critic who, in his best known work ''Sex In History'' (1954), explains trends in civilization by way of a matrism/patrism dichotomy. "Patrism combines two ideas: hierarchy and discipline. The individual fits into an organizational structure, in which orders come from above, and rules exist to cover almost every kind of situation. ...in contrast, matrism sees the individual as free from all external compulsions and hence obviously equal to all other individuals, in the sense of having no authority over them, nor recognizing any." Gordon Rattray Taylor ''Rethink'', p 30 | '''Gordon Rattray Taylor''' is a British writer and social critic who, in his best known work ''Sex In History'' (1954), explains trends in civilization by way of a matrism/patrism dichotomy. "Patrism combines two ideas: hierarchy and discipline. The individual fits into an organizational structure, in which orders come from above, and rules exist to cover almost every kind of situation. ...in contrast, matrism sees the individual as free from all external compulsions and hence obviously equal to all other individuals, in the sense of having no authority over them, nor recognizing any." Gordon Rattray Taylor ''Rethink'', p 30 | ||
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Gordon Rattray Taylor (1911-1981)
A British author and broadcaster who served as a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London (1976-81). He was born in Eastbourne on January 11, 1911, and educated at Radley College, Trinity College, and Cambridge University. He worked as a journalist beginning in 1933 and in 1958 joined the British Broadcasting Company where he wrote and devised science television programs. In 1966 he became a full-time author. He had authored a number of books over his lifetime. Taylor died December, 7, 1981.
Gordon Rattray Taylor is a British writer and social critic who, in his best known work Sex In History (1954), explains trends in civilization by way of a matrism/patrism dichotomy. "Patrism combines two ideas: hierarchy and discipline. The individual fits into an organizational structure, in which orders come from above, and rules exist to cover almost every kind of situation. ...in contrast, matrism sees the individual as free from all external compulsions and hence obviously equal to all other individuals, in the sense of having no authority over them, nor recognizing any." Gordon Rattray Taylor Rethink, p 30
Biography
From the backpage of The Doomsday Book (ed.1972)
Is a writer who has specialised in making use of the findings of the social sciences in order to interpret the trends of contemporary society. His first book, Economics for the Exasperated, attracted immediate attention. Then followed Conditions of Happiness, in which he analysed the social and psychological forces at work in modern society. In Are Workers Human? he dealt with human behaviour in the industrial context. Later books were The Angel Makers, The Science of Life and The Biological Time Bomb.
Mr. Taylor studied the natural sciences at Cambridge, and later entered journalism. During the war he worked for the BBC, as well as in the Psychological Warfare division of SHAEF. He was the deviser of the `Eye on Research' programmes on BBC television. --http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/about.htm [Jun 2005]
