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Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

Paperback by Orton, Michael (Warwick Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick); Body-Gendrot, Sophie (Université Paris-Sorbonne); Burgum, Sam; Walker, Alan (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield); Corbett, Steve (Liverpool Hope University); Ward, Paul (Edge Hill University); Pahl, Kate (Manchester Metropolitan University); Williams, Richard (University of Melbourne); Taylor, Gretel (University of Melbourne); Joy-Warr,...

Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

£24.99

ISBN:
9781447332039
Publication Date:
31 May 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Imprint:
Policy Press
Pages:
192 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 Aug 2026
Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

Description

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.

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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