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Building Better Societies Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)

Building Better Societies By Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)

Building Better Societies by Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)

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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.

Building Better Societies Summary

Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart by Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)

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.

Building Better Societies Reviews

"This fantastic collection provides a trenchant critique of contemporary society and outlines solutions to challenge the power games of those sowing the seeds of social injustice. A must read for anyone with a heart." Mark Doidge, University of Brighton
"offers a different way of thinking and a simple message-that the notion of the social needs to be reclaimed and restored if we are to have a better society. This book is a well-timed addition to the social justice discourse and should be read by everyone." LSE Review of Books
"Do we need another book on social justice? The answer seems to be yes. The text largely makes a compelling case for the betterment of society and charts a credible way forward for how we might best achieve this....This book is a well-timed addition to the social justice discourse and should be read by everyone." London School fo Economics Review of Books
"This is a profoundly important book. How might public sociology be conducted in bleak times and in the face of fragmented publics? The authors begin the necessary task of building a sociology of new possibilities. Recent events make this necessary reading" John Holmwood, University of Nottingham
"We've been told we don't need experts but we need them more than ever. This rich collection of thought-provoking pieces about the importance of our social world can be a catalyst for debate and dialogue among all those committed to building a better world." Kate E Pickett, University of York
"Enriches and enlivens, bringing detail to generalities and radical, exciting alternatives to exhausted narratives." Zoe Williams, the Guardian

About Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR011091555
9781447332039
1447332032
Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart by Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)
Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Policy Press
2017-05-31
192
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