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Promoting social cohesion: Implications for policy and evaluation

Peter Ratcliffe and Ines Newman

Abstract

This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from ‘community cohesion’ to the broader notion of social cohesion, and is distinctive in its focus on evaluation. It constitutes a valuable source both for practitioners involved in social-cohesion interventions and for researchers and students studying theory-based evaluation and the policy areas highlighted: housing, intergenerational issues, the recession, education, communications, and community development.

Keywords: social cohesion, community cohesion, evaluation, policy, housing, intergenerational issues, recession, education, communications, community development

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9781847426956
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847426956.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Peter Ratcliffe, editor

Ines Newman, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

Notes on the contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Promoting social cohesion

Peter Ratcliffe, and Ines Newman

Part One Theoretical perspectives

One From community to social cohesion: interrogating a policy paradigm

Peter Ratcliffe

Two Evaluating social cohesion

Helen Sullivan

Part Two: Community cohesion to social cohesion: evaluation and data – methodological issues

Three Measuring performance in community cohesion

Crispian Fuller

Four Migration, race and population dynamics

Ludi Simpson

Five Using local administrative data to evaluate social and community cohesion

John Eversley, and Les Mayhew

Six Assessing the impact of social cohesion initiatives in a media age: methodological and theoretical considerations

Roger Grimshaw, and Kate Smart

Seven Social cohesion in the local delivery context: understanding equality and the importance of local knowledge

Rose Doran, and Michael Keating

Part Three Policy areas

Eight Housing, spatial patterns and social cohesion

Peter Ratcliffe

Nine Education policy, social cohesion and citizenship

Audrey Osler

Ten Addressing worklessness post the financial crisis

Ines Newman

Eleven New communities and social cohesion: third sector approaches to evaluation

Marjorie Mayo, Vaughan Jones, and Juan Camilo Cock

Twelve Evaluating the contribution of intergenerational practice to achieving social cohesion

Alan Hatton-Yeo, and Clare Batty

Part Four Conclusion

Thirteen Conclusion: towards a theory of change for social cohesion

Ines Newman, and Peter Ratcliffe

End Matter

Index