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First published in 1986, Social Science and Social Policy addresses major questions concerned with the social utility of social science. The book provides a critical examination of policy-making processes, social science research, alternative methodologies and the role of analysis.

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This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies, reproducing classic papers from the journal, along with invited discussions of each paper, and responses from the original authors. The discussions in this book provide an insight into the evolution of contemporary debates and controversies in the field.

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This book provides an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicity, providing an overview of the shifting boundaries of the field. The volume combines conceptual reflection with empirically focused analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately thought out and rests on a series of poorly founded sociological assumptions. This book, first published in 1987, will be essential reading for all those concerned with the organization and delivery of social care, whether as students, practitioners or teachers.

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The situation in the USA has been the subject of intense policy and political debate over the past decades and the chapters in this collection cover diverse aspects of the changing meanings and boundaries of race, migration and identity in the contemporary USA. They provide an insight into the changing dynamics of race and migration in the contemporary environment, combining conceptual analysis with original empirical research. The concerns of...

This important collection addresses recent developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, politics, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy.Drawing on the latest research in all these areas, the authors provide a comprehensive account of key controversies and debates and pinpoint new directions in research and scholarship that are likely to shape the study of race and eth...

The strong community ties of mining villages are the central concern of this book, which deals with the social history and sociology of mining in County Durham in the twentieth century. Focusing on the country as a whole, this title, first published in 1978, asks what is most distinctive about the area in the past and how it is changing in the present. Mining and Social Change will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Social scientists have proposed several different models for the relationship between social science theory, empirical social research and the actual making of public social policy. This book, first published in 1980, seeks to provide a critical analysis of the impact of research on policy through the detailed examination of the part which research played in the work of Royal Commissions of Inquiry. This book will be of interest to students of...

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Social scientists have proposed several different models for the relationship between social science theory, empirical social research and the actual making of public social policy. This book, first published in 1980, seeks to provide a critical analysis of the impact of research on policy through the detailed examination of the part which research played in the work of Royal Commissions of Inquiry, the bodies set up by government to consider,...

The contributors apply Marshall's dominant conception of citizenship to key areas of social scientific study such as power, income distribution, work and technology, family responsibilities, the environment and the underclass.

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