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This work examines the official statistics produced about the
current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in
which information has been suppressed, manipulated and
misinterpreted since 1979. It also looks at what can actually be
learnt from avaliable data about poverty, unemployment, crime and
health, and the social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity amd
disability. This guide is designed to help students know what
figures are available, and to discover when and how politicians are
misusing statistics. It provides a detailed analysis of key data
sets such as households below average income, administrative and
survey measures of unemployment and crime, population consensus
data on ethnicity, different sources of data on women and work, the
relationship between class and health, safety at work and new data
sources on disability. The importance of the Labour Force Survey is
reflected in discussions of its different uses.
This work examines the official statistics produced about the
current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in
which information has been suppressed, manipulated and
misinterpreted since 1979. It also looks at what can actually be
learnt from avaliable data about poverty, unemployment, crime and
health, and the social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity amd
disability. This guide is designed to help students know what
figures are available, and to discover when and how politicians are
misusing statistics. It provides a detailed analysis of key data
sets such as households below average income, administrative and
survey measures of unemployment and crime, population consensus
data on ethnicity, different sources of data on women and work, the
relationship between class and health, safety at work and new data
sources on disability. The importance of the Labour Force Survey is
reflected in discussions of its different uses.
In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday.
It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of
his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city
deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on
the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual
versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and
viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and
extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is
a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend
Reader looks at the changes in social policy that have taken place
in the UK, as well as internationally, over the past six decades.
Each section of the book is introduced by an editor who is
acquainted with Peter Townsend's work. It provides insight into the
development of one social scientist's entire intellectual approach,
particularly in choosing to place social policy at the center of
social theory. The b
In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday.
It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of
his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city
deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on
the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual
versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and
viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and
extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is
a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend
Reader looks at the changes in social policy that have taken place
in the UK, as well as internationally, over the past six decades.
Each section of the book is introduced by an editor who is
acquainted with Peter Townsend's work. It provides insight into the
development of one social scientist's entire intellectual approach,
particularly in choosing to place social policy at the center of
social theory. The b
The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language.
When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social
Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does
social inclusion mean? This revised and updated edition of The
Inclusive Society? identifies three competing meanings of the term
in contemporary British Politics, emphasising poverty, employment
and morality. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away
from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of
poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work
and moral regulation.
This book is the most authoritative study of poverty and social
exclusion in Britain at the start of the 21st century. It reports
on the most comprehensive survey of poverty and social exclusion,
ever to be undertaken in Britain: The Poverty and Social Exclusion
Survey. This enormously rich data set records levels of poverty not
just in terms of income and wealth but by including information
about the goods and services which the British public say are
necessary to avoid poverty. The relationship between poverty and
factors such as age, gender and paid work are explored, as well as
other social issues such as crime and neighbourhood disadvantage.
Poverty and social exclusion in Britain charts the extent and
nature of material and social deprivation and exclusion in Britain
at the end of the 20th century; makes the first ever measurement of
the extent of social exclusion based on a survey specifically
designed for this purpose and provides a clear conceptual
understanding of poverty and social exclusion from both an national
and international perspective. This important book should be read
by officials and policy makers in national and local government,
NGOs, charities and voluntary organisations dealing with poverty
and social exclusion. It will also be required reading for
academics and students of social policy, sociology, public health,
economics and politics.
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) is now recognized as a philosopher and
cultural critic of the greatest importance, his subtle and profound
developments of utopian Marxism as influential for the student New
Left of the 1960s and 1970s as they were for the leftist movements
of the twenties. Today, in the United States and Britain, his
enormous body of work is attracting new generations of readers:
more translations are appearing, and his utopian thought is finding
a new resonance in many different contexts. Several of the authors
here address the centrality of a radically unconventional concept
of utopia to Bloch's thought; others write on the question of
memory and pedagogical theory. There is a Blochian reading of crime
fiction, illuminating overviews of Bloch's work and an exploration
of the stylistics of hope in Bloch's Spuren, as well as a
translation of excerpts from that extraordinary book. The essays
gathered here are intended, above all, to recommend Bloch's work as
a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian
emancipation, and to give specific examples of how that work can
contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism and
collective memory, the liberatory content of popular cultural
forms, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday
life. Together they provide a timely introduction to one of the
most untimely and inspiring thinkers of the twentieth century.
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