As many commentators have pointed out, the pressures facing modern welfare states are formidable. One response by government is to place greater emphasis on a policy-making paradigm which rests on an individual rational actor account of agency. This finds its intellectual home in the leading tradition of neo-classical economics, its ideological home in a politics of active citizenry and equality of opportunity and its institutional home in the mechanisms by which the Treasury currently directs social policy. The resulting policies have strengths in delivering productivity improvements and responsiveness to consumer demand, but weaknesses in accommodating the value positions of an increasingly diverse society, in sustaining the social c...
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While accepting Banton’s (2016) view that sociology and social policy are distinct disciplines, this...
In reflecting on changes in policy analysis, the author notes the climate of suspicion for policy ad...
Social policy writers appear to be increasingly concerned with theories of human agency and their im...
In this paper the author argues that social scientists need to do more to provide policy-relevant re...
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Changing Welfare, Changing States disentangles the various answers to these questions, inviting us t...
One particular index of the systemic nature of the current crisis is the weaknesses of intellectual ...
Policy could be studied on the basis of three different models: ideological, social science, and pol...
Social policies, as well as the ways of observing and defining them, require re-problematizations an...
In this chapter I set out to show something of the contested place of interpretive methods in social...
The paper discusses neoliberalism’s success in the achievement of consensus despite its negative co...
Social science research provides not only abstract, conceptual knowledge about society but also conc...
Debates about social theory and social policy are highly fragmented and unclear in subject and direc...
This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focus...
* How can sociological perspectives help us make sense of contemporary social policy? * How has...
While accepting Banton’s (2016) view that sociology and social policy are distinct disciplines, this...
In reflecting on changes in policy analysis, the author notes the climate of suspicion for policy ad...
Social policy writers appear to be increasingly concerned with theories of human agency and their im...
In this paper the author argues that social scientists need to do more to provide policy-relevant re...
This Agenda article first considers whether social psychology is in the best or worst of times and ...
Changing Welfare, Changing States disentangles the various answers to these questions, inviting us t...
One particular index of the systemic nature of the current crisis is the weaknesses of intellectual ...
Policy could be studied on the basis of three different models: ideological, social science, and pol...
Social policies, as well as the ways of observing and defining them, require re-problematizations an...
In this chapter I set out to show something of the contested place of interpretive methods in social...
The paper discusses neoliberalism’s success in the achievement of consensus despite its negative co...
Social science research provides not only abstract, conceptual knowledge about society but also conc...
Debates about social theory and social policy are highly fragmented and unclear in subject and direc...
This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focus...