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The Peter Townsend Reader de Alan Walker

The Peter Townsend Reader

Editat de Alan Walker, David Gordon, Ruth Levitas, Peter Phillimore, Chris Phillipson, Margot E. Salomon, Nicola Yeates
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2010
Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities.This reader brings together for the first time a collection of his most distinctive work, allowing readers to review changes and continuities over the past six decades, and reflect on social issues that have returned to the fore today. A particular feature of the volume is in tracing the links between empirical evidence and both social theory and social policy, and how those disciplines intersect. This reader will provide a teaching and learning resource for students in different disciplines of the social sciences and will also provide an insight into the development of one scientist's entire intellectual approach. We hope it will be a fitting memorial to his life and work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847424044
ISBN-10: 184742404X
Pagini: 696
Dimensiuni: 172 x 243 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Recenzii

A valuable selection from the writings of an outstanding sociologist whose analyses have greatly enriched our understanding of social policy and its impact on people’s lives and the wider society. Adrian Sinfield, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

This collection of Peter Townsend's writing is a tribute to his breadth of scholarship, and the superb clarity of his writing and his commitment will continue to inspire social scientists. Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, Department of Social Policy and Social work, University of York

This invaluable collection introduces readers to a wide range of Peter Townsend's writings over half a century. It is a fitting memorial to an outstanding scholar and campaigner. Professor Ruth Lister, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

..this reader is an inspiration to us to collect and publish evidence in the cause of social change - and that, I'm sure, is the legacy for which Townsend would have wished. (It) is everything which students of social policy would have asked for. Citizens' Income Newsletter

Notă biografică

David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Ruth Levitas has been Professor of Sociology at Bristol since 2001, and a member of the Department of Sociology at Bristol since 1979. Peter Phillimore is professor of social anthropology at Newcastle University, in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Chris Phillipson has held the post of Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele since 1988. C Margot E. Salomon is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science. Alan Walker joined the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1977 and has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Social Policy. Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Dublin City University.

Cuprins

Notes for readers
Acknowledgements
Notes on the section editors 
Introduction

Section I: Sociology and social policy
Alan Walker

Introduction
1. Sociology and social policy
2. Origins of sociology and social policy
3. Guerrillas, subordinates and passers-by
4. The rise of international social policy

Section II: From welfare state to international welfare
Nicola Yeates

Introduction
5. Measures and explanations of poverty in high income and low income countries 
6. The international analysis of poverty
7. The need to construct an international welfare state
8. ‘Absolute’ and ‘overall’ poverty: the 1995 Copenhagen approach to the fulfilment to human rights
9. The 2009 Minority Report on the World Bank
10. Manifesto: international action to defeat poverty
11. Investment in social security: a possible UN model for child benefit?

Section III: Poverty
David Gordon

Introduction
12. Poverty: ten years after Beveridge
13. Measuring poverty
14. The meaning of poverty
15. The poor and the poorest
16. Concepts of poverty and deprivation
17. Deprivation
18. Theoretical disputes about poverty
19. The construction of a measure of deprivation
20. Child poverty in the developing world

Section IV: Inequality and social exclusion
Ruth Levitas

Introduction
21. The truce on inequality
22. Poverty: has the welfare state failed?
23. How the rich stay rich
24. The pursuit of equality
25. A matter of class
26. Underclass and overclass
27. The rich man in his castle
28. Poverty, social exclusion and social polarization
29. The international measurement of ‘absolute’ and ‘overall’ poverty

Section V: Health inequalities and health policy
Peter Phillimore

Introduction
30. The Black Report
31. Inequality and the health service
32. Health and deprivation
33. Individual or social responsibility for premature death?
34. Better benefits for health

Section VI: Older people
Chris Phillipson

Introduction
35. The family system of care
36. The anxieties of retirement
37. Some effects upon old people of living in residential homes
38. The structured dependency of the elderly
39. New pensions for old
40. Policies for the aged in the 21th century

Section VII: Disability
Alan Walker

Introduction
41. The disabled in society
42. Social planning for the mentally handicapped
43. Operational measures of disability as a guide to action 
44. Elderly people with disability 
45. An aid scale for disable children
46. Stigma: the experience of disability
47. Disabled people and long-term sick
48. Employment and disability 
49. The political sociology of mental handicap
50. The disable need help
51. Poverty and disability 

Section VIII: Social justice and human rights
Margot E. Salomon

Introduction
52. A policy to establish the legal rights of low income families
53. The right to social security and national development
54. Using human rights to reduce inequalities in economic and social development
55. Persuasion and conformity: an assessment of the Borrie report on social justice
56. Using human rights to defeat ageism
57. We have got a fair way to go
58. Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank

Index