sentences:  The study was carried out in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, in the East End of London and a new housing estate in Essex.The research was carried out by Michael Young and Peter Willmott, who had been an integral part of building the welfare state in Britain during the tenure of Clement Attlee and the Labour government between 1945-51.The study itself has been acknowledged by many sociologists and in its authors' critiques as being one of the most influential sociological studies of the twentieth century.