Social Research and Social Reform: Essays in Honour of A. H. Halsey

ISBN-13: 9780198278542 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 428 str.

Crouch, Colin

Opis

In light of recent skepticism about the effectiveness of social research, this work provides an opportune reassessment of its influence. It also proposes new ways to consider the relationship of research to reform. The range of topics covered includes secondary educational reform, changing concepts of social work, women's studies, as well as the role of evaluation research in social policy in the United States and Sweden.

Recenzje

`these essays in honour of A.H. (Chelly) Halsey are well above the usual standard ... This book is unusually successful as a Festschrift. One is impressed throughout by the commitment, breadth, humanity and prescience of the scholar being honoured. One is reminded of path-breaking achievements and outstanding scholarship. And the generally high standard of the book convinces us that the themes continue to be pursued and progress is being made' Sociology

Spis treści

1. Canon Barnett: Ethical Socialist (Julia Parker); 2. Conceptions of Social Work (Juliet Cheetham); 3. Citizenship and Community in British Political Debates (Colin Crouch); 4. Social Movements and Disordered Bodies: the Reform of Birth, Sex, Drink, and Death in Britain since 1850 (Rory Williams); 5. Government against Poverty in the European Community (Graham Room); 6. Certification, Class Conflict, Religion, and Community (Andrew McPherson and Douglas Willms); 7. Government Policies and Higher Education: A Comparison of Britain and the United States, 1630-1860 (Sheldon Rothblatt and Martin Trow); 8. Towards Meritocracy? Recent Evidence on an Old Problem (Anthony Heath, Colin Mills, and Jane Roberts); 9. From Social Research to Educational Policy: 10/65 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (George Smith and Teresa Smith); 10. Women's Studies: Theory or Practice? (Ann Oakley); 11. Beyond the `Mixed Model': Social Research and the Case for Reform of the Education of Sixteen- to Eighteen-Year-Olds in Britain (David Raffe); 12. Active Labour-Market Policy: Its Content, Effectiveness, and Odd Relation to Evaluation Research (Harold Wilensky).