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Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book
provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism
within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications
for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the
controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and
households and explores broader themes, including how 'new
behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron
periods. Social policy and social control offers timely engagements
with key issues for researchers and policy makers, and is relevant
for students in social policy, sociology, socio-legal studies,
social work and social care, disability studies, human geography,
politics and public policy, and gender, family and life course
studies.
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book
provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism
within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications
for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the
controls, assumptions and persuasions applied to individuals and
households and explores broader themes, including how 'new
behaviourism' was consolidated during the New Labour and Cameron
periods. Social policy and social control offers timely engagements
with key issues for researchers and policy makers, and is relevant
for students in social policy, sociology, socio-legal studies,
social work and social care, disability studies, human geography,
politics and public policy, and gender, family and life course
studies.
Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social
sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy
fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its
institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book
provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of
housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing
needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this
broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing.
It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is
applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the
agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference:
brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an
analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach
to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency,
structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within
difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of
postmodernism to create an original account of difference and
structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important
text for students and researchers in housing, social policy,
planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender
studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners
committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer
society.
The extraordinary and beautiful scenery of the Northern Scottish
Highlands has been created by a geological history lasting over
three billion years. The new and thoroughly up-dated edition of
this popular book takes its readers through those three billion
years, shows the rocks, visits the places, introduces some famous
researchers and presents the geological theories that have been
inspired by the Highlands. Even though the influence of this
magnificent place can be overwhelming, the book is about geology
and the modern science involved. It is written for all to
understand. It is a book for non-specialists interested in modern
science, scientists and all lovers of the Northern Scottish
Highlands. The text is sometimes light-hearted, but the science is
serious. The subjects covered are as wide as he the splitting open
of the North Atlantic Ocean: a time when the Earth resembled modern
Mars; early continent formation; billion year old bacteria; the
very beginnings of human evolution; Snowball Earth; and,
inevitably, climate change. This is modern science wrapped up in
good writing and humour: a rare combination.
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