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Building better societies : promoting social justice in a world falling apart / edited by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow.
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English
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Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2017.
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vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm
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HN18.3 .B849 2017
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Social problems
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21st century
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"From environmental decline to growing economic inequality, things are getting worse for the majority of the human race and will continue to worsen until determined action is taken. Starting from this vantage point, Building Better Societies looks to social scientists to identify what is needed to solve the problems that are leading to a collapse of civil society. This is the first book to collect the ideas of those whose research on social conditions is at the forefront of our biggest societal problems. Challenging fellow social scientists to cast aside their commitment to the established order and its ideological support systems, Building Better Societies argues that social researchers must, as objectively as possible, use their skills to look ahead, identify the likely outcomes of various forms of intervention, and move to the forefront of informed political debate. Bringing together expert contributors researching the many aspects of our social condition, this book channels the energy of social scientists into a more normative and engaged voice; it asks them what mechanisms, interventions, and evidence we might draw on as we make a better world."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Who would not be for society?
The social question and the urgency of care
Better politics: narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics
Valuing and strengthening community
Confronting the roots of violent behaviour
In defence of the public city
Artfully thinking the prosocial
Re-visioning exclusion in local communities
Putting 'the social' back into social policy
Progress through protest
Cities, crises and the future
Policy steps towards a better social future
The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion
The uses of catastrophism
Thinking prosocially.
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ISBN
9781447332039 ((paperback))
1447332032 ((paperback))
9781447332022 ((hardback))
1447332024 ((hardback))
OCLC
990020518
International Article Number
13150937
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