Building better societies

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3203-9
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.

The book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. It argues that social scientists need to cast aside their commitment to the established order and its ideological support systems, look ahead at the likely outcomes of various interventions and move to the forefront of informed political debate.

Providing practical steps and policy programmes, this is ideal for academics and students across a wide range of social science fields and those interested in social inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkinson, Rowland

Mckenzie, Lisa

Winlow, Simon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Orton, Michael

Body-Gendrot, Sophie

Burgum, Sam

Walker, Alan

Corbett, Steve

Ward, Paul

Pahl, Kate

Williams, Richard

Taylor, Gretel

Joy-Warr, Deborah

Coward, Martin

Ellis, Anthony

Jacobs, Keith

Wilkinson, Iain

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Who would not be For Society? ~ Rowland Atkinson, Lisa McKenzie and Simon Winlow

Part 1: Problems

The social question and the urgency of care ~ Iain Wilkinson

Better politics - narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics ~ Keith Jacobs

Valuing and strengthening community ~ Lisa McKenzie

Part 2: Ideas

Confronting the roots of violent behaviour ~ Anthony Ellis

In defence of the public city ~ Martin Coward

Artfully thinking the prosocial ~ Deborah Joy-Warr, Gretel Taylor and Richard Williams

Re-visioning exclusion in local communities ~ Kate Pahl and Paul Ward

Putting ‘the social’ back into social policy ~ Steve Corbett and Alan Walker

Part 3: Futures

Progress through protest ~ Sam Burgum

Cities, crises and the future ~ Sophie Body-Gendrot

Policy steps towards a better social future ~ Michael Orton

The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion ~ Rowland Atkinson

The uses of catastrophism ~ Simon Winlow

Conclusion: Thinking the Prosocial ~ Rowland Atkinson, Simon Winlow and Lisa Mckenzie

Über Autor(innen)

Body-Gendrot, Sophie
Book: Building Better Societies (Chapter: Cities, Crises and the Future)

Ward, Paul
Professor of Public History and Community Heritage and Head of the Department of English, History and Creative Writing, Edge Hill University

Ellis, Anthony
Anthony Ellis is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Salford.

Pahl, Kate
Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Mckenzie, Lisa
Dr Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science, working as part of the Great British Class Survey Team. Her previous research focused upon the poor working class and her current research interests relate to the precarious and vulnerable nature of particular groups in our society through insecure housing, work, social benefits, health care, and education. She is author of the bestselling Getting by: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Books: Building Better society; Society Better: Thinking the pro-social

Winlow, Simon
Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.

Burgum, Sam
Birmingham City University

Walker, Alan
Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at The University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds lifetime achievement awards from the British Gerontological Society and the Social Policy Association and was the ESRC’s first Impact Champion (2013). He directed the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme 2005-14.

Orton, Michael
Building Better Societies (Chapter: Building a better future: Some practical policy steps)

Joy-Warr, Deborah
University of Melbourne

Atkinson, Rowland
Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Books: Better society

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress.

Dr Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science, working as part of the Great British Class Survey Team. Her previous research focused upon the poor working class and her current research interests relate to the precarious and vulnerable nature of particular groups in our society through insecure housing, work, social benefits, health care, and education. She is author of the bestselling Getting by: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (Policy Press, 2015).

Professor Simon Winlow, is at the Centre for Realist Criminology, Teesside University. He has research expertise in both sociology and criminology and has published widely on violence, criminal markets and cultures, and social, political and economic change.