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Contemporary social evils /

100 years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading thinkers, activists and commentators to identify social evils in the 21st century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Social evils' and 'social problems' in Britain since 1904 / Jose Harris
  • Uneasy and powerless: views from the online consultation / Beth Watts and David Utting
  • Truncated opportunities: eliciting unheard voices on social evils / Alice Mowlam and Chris Creegan
  • Living with social evils: further views from people in disadvantaged groups / Chris Cregan, Martha Warrener and Rachel Kinsella
  • Has there been a decline in values in British society? / Anthony Browne
  • Social evils and social good / A.C. Grayling
  • Unkind, risk averse and untrusting: if this is today's society, can we change it? / Baroness Julia Neuberger
  • What and who is it we don't trust? / Shaun Bailey
  • Fear and distrust in 21st-century Britain / Anna Minton
  • The absence of society/ Zygmunt Bauman
  • A wrong turn in the search for freedom? / Neal Lawson
  • Individualism and community: investing in civil society / Stephen Thake
  • Opportunity and aspiration: two sides of the same coin? / Chris Creegan
  • Five types of inequality / Ferdinand Mount
  • The poor and the unequal / Jeremy Seabrook
  • Reflections on social evils and human nature / Matthew Taylor.