Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart
Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie, and Simon Winlow
Abstract
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 opinions 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 ... More
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 opinions 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 book is ideal for academics and students across a wide range of social science fields and those interested in social inequality.
Keywords:
civil society,
harm,
better society,
established order,
social science,
social inequality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447332022 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447332022.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Rowland Atkinson, editor
University of Sheffield
Lisa Mckenzie, editor
London School of Economics & Political Science
Simon Winlow, editor
Teesside University
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