The social construction of social policy : methodologies, racism, citizenship and the environment /
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Imprint: | London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996. |
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Description: | xi, 230 p. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Explorations in sociology 44 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2345492 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Social Policy isn't what It Used to Be - The Social Construction of Social Policy in the 1980s and 1990s / Colin Samson and Nigel South
- 2. 'Probably, Minister ...': the 'Strong Programme' Approach to the Relationship between Research and Policy / Mel Bartley
- 3. How (and How Not) to Design Research to Inform Policy-making / Ray Pawson and Nicholas Tilley
- 4. Naming Difference: Race-thinking, Common Sense and Sociology / Bob Carter and Marci Green
- 5. Consanguinity and Related Demons: Science and Racism in the Debate on Consanguinity and Birth Outcome / Waqar Ahmad
- 6. Representations of Asians' Mental Health in British Psychiatry / Charles Watters
- 7. Difference in the City: Locating Marginal Use of Public Space / Karen Evans and Penelope Fraser
- 8. No Key - No Door? Young People's Access to Housing / Gill Jones
- 9. 'Island Homes for Island People': Competition, Conflict and Racism in the Battle over Public Housing on the Isle of Dogs / Janet Foster
- 10. Contracting Knowledge: Commissioned Research and the Sociology of the Environment / Elizabeth Shove
- 11. Us and Them: The Construction and Maintenance of Divisions in a Planning Dispute / Kate Burningham
- 12. Inter-organisational Negotiations in Political Decision-making: Brussels' EC Bureaucrats and the Environment / Carlo Ruzza.