Name: The Social Construction of Social Policy
ISBN: 978-1-349-24545-1

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Editors:

Colin Samson (Lecturer in Sociology)⁰,
Nigel South (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)¹

Colin Samson
1. University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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1. University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Colin Samson, Nigel South
  
  Pages 1-13
Critiques of the Policy Research Process
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 15-15
  
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2. ‘Probably, Minister …’: the ‘Strong Programme’ Approach to the Relationship between Research and Policy
  
  Mel Bartley
  
  Pages 17-33
3. How (and How Not) to Design Research to Inform Policy-making
  
  Ray Pawson, Nicholas Tilley
  
  Pages 34-53
Racism, Health and Policy Thinking
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 55-55
  
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2. Naming Difference: Race-thinking, Common Sense and Sociology
  
  Bob Carter, Marci Green
  
  Pages 57-67
3. Consanguinity and Related Demons: Science and Racism in the Debate on Consanguinity and Birth Outcome
  
  Waqar Ahmad
  
  Pages 68-87
4. Representations of Asians’ Mental Health in British Psychiatry
  
  Charles Watters
  
  Pages 88-105
Citizenship, Rights and Inequalities
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 107-107
  
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2. Difference in the City: Locating Marginal Use of Public Space
  
  Karen Evans, Penelope Fraser
  
  Pages 109-125
3. No Key — No Door? Young People’s Access to Housing
  
  Gill Jones
  
  Pages 126-147
4. ‘Island Homes for Island People’: Competition, Conflict and Racism in the Battle over Public Housing on the Isle of Dogs
  
  Janet Foster
  
  Pages 148-168
Environment, Planning and Bureaucracy
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 169-169
  
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2. Contracting Knowledge: Commissioned Research and the Sociology of the Environment
  
  Elizabeth Shove
  
  Pages 171-192
3. Us and Them: The Construction and Maintenance of Divisions in a Planning Dispute
  
  Kate Burningham
  
  Pages 193-209
4. Inter-organisational Negotiations in Political Decision-making: Brussels’ EC Bureaucrats and the Environment
  
  Carlo Ruzza
  
  Pages 210-223
Back Matter

Pages 224-230

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About this book

This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social policy. Critical but accessible, the various chapters cover methodological issues and the nature of competing claims about social policy 'knowledge', racism and health services, citizenship and access to housing and other amenities, and the importance of the environment as an emerging area for social policy debate.

Editors and Affiliations

University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Colin Samson, Nigel South

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: The Social Construction of Social Policy
Book Subtitle: Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship and the Environment
Editors: Colin Samson, Nigel South
Series Title: Explorations in Sociology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24545-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: British Sociological Association 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-63089-1Due: 01 April 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-63090-7Published: 24 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24545-1Published: 12 June 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 230
Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Care, Social Policy
Industry Sectors: Engineering

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Critiques of the Policy Research Process

Front Matter

Racism, Health and Policy Thinking

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Citizenship, Rights and Inequalities

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Environment, Planning and Bureaucracy

Front Matter

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

Editors and Affiliations

University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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