Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion Research

ISBN-13: 9780470095133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 270 str.

Julie Christian; Dominic Abrams; David Gordon

Opis

In 2001, Dominic Abrams co-founded a seminar series entitled 'Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Informing Policy Through Social Psychology' which secured funding from the ESRC. The seminar series provides the foundation for this book, although the editors have expanded the focus beyond social psychology. Instead of being discipline-specific, a social exclusion issue will be examined in depth, using research from across disciplines and examining practical implications from a multi-professional viewpoint.

Issues covered include: education, employment, healthcare, homelessness, ethnicity, economics and crime.

Spis treści

About the Editors.

Contributors.

Preface and Overview.

Chapter 1. Social Exclusion and Social Policy Research: Defining Exclusion (Jane Millar).

Chapter 2. Women′s Social Exclusion (Diane Houston).

Chapter 3. The Social Psychology of Exclusion (Paul Hutchison,Julie Christian and Dominic Abrams).

Chapter 4. Stigma and Exclusion in Healthcare Settings (Elizabeth Mason– Whitehead and Tom Mason).

Chapter 5. Homelessness and Social Exclusion (David Clapham).

Chapter 6. Education and Social Exclusion (Peter Hick, John Visser and Natasha MacNab).

Chapter 7. Care Leavers, Exclusion and Access to Higher Education (Sonia Jackson).

Chapter 8. Social Exclusion and Crime (Chris Hale and Marian Fitzgerald).

Chapter 9. Social Inclusion: Race and Ethnicity: Policies in New Clothes (Greville Percival).

Chapter 10. Business and Social Inclusion (Ken Peattie).

Chapter 11. History and Development of Social Exclusion and Policy (David Gordon).

Chapter 12. A Relational Analysis of Social Exclusion (Dominic Abrams and Julie Christian).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

O autorze

Dr. Julie Christian is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the application of attitude and inter–group processes to various areas within social service provision, with particular regard to homelessness. She has published numerous journal articles.

 Professor Dominic Abrams is the director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent. He has published extensively in journals and is the editor of the European Bulletin of Social Psychology. He has authored/edited 6 previous books.

David Gordon, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK

Blurb

Social exclusion remains one of the key problems nationally and globally for policy makers, researchers and professionals. In spite of its prominence today, social exclusion policy debate lacks a dominant disciplinary focus. This innovative book covers evidence from key research and policy to provide readers with cross–disciplinary perspectives on major areas of social exclusion.

Chapters focus on central social exclusion policy domains, including education, healthcare and crime. They are structured in a common framework that relates available evidence to the state of social exclusion and the mechanisms by which social exclusion can be tackled. Contributors also offer connections between different national and international approaches to social exclusion and, in doing so, shed further light on the complexities of social exclusion in society.

The cross–disciplinary approach offered in Multi–professional Handbook of Social Exclusion gives the book broad appeal across a range of professions and disciplines. The book will act as an unrivalled source of reference on social exclusion for academics and practitioners working in disciplines including housing, education, psychology, political science, healthcare, sociology and Law