Building Better Societies : : Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart / / ed. by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie, Simon Winlow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Rowland,; Body-Gendrot, Sophie,; Burgum, Samuel,; Corbett, Steve,; Coward, Martin,; Ellis, Anthony,; Jacobs, Keith,; Mckenzie, Lisa,; Orton, Michael,; Pahl, Kate,; Taylor, Gretel,; Walker, Alan,; Ward, Paul,; Warr, Deborah,; Wilkinson, Iain,; Williams, Richard,; Winlow, Simon,
• HerausgeberIn: Atkinson, Rowland,; Mckenzie, Lisa,; Winlow, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Who would not be for society? -- Problems -- The social question and the urgency of care -- Better politics: Narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics -- Valuing and strengthening community -- Ideas -- 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 -- Futures -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Thinking prosocially -- Index