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.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Samson, Colin.
South, Nigel.
ISBN:0312127170 (St. Martin's)
0333630890 (Macmillan)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.