10-1
in Seven Shots
October 2010; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: social theory. 16136 words.
This chapter gives an account of two dedicated police officers, Paul Yurkiw and Rich Teemsma, working in the Emergency Service departments and discusses their brave acts in July 1997....
9/11
in Seven Shots
October 2010; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: social theory. 26122 words.
This chapter outlines the concerns about terrorism that came to the forefront of police consciousness only to momentarily dissipate under the weight of a bloody trial. On February 4, 1999,...
A ‘new institutional fix’? The ‘community turn’ and the changing role of the voluntary sector
in Landscapes of voluntarism
June 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: organizations. 7984 words.
This chapter explores how policies for regenerating deprived areas and tackling different aspects of social exclusion in the UK have taken a ‘community turn’ which embraces an enhanced role for the...
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A ‘pivotal moment’? Education policy in England, 2005
in Social Policy Review 18
June 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social research and statistics. 5880 words.
This chapter argues that the Labour government reached a pivotal point in its third term, in relation to its two long-standing objectives of raising educational performance, while also reducing...
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‘A new branch can be strengthened by an old branch’1: livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in South Africa
in World poverty
September 2002; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social stratification, inequality, and mobility. 10992 words.
Anti-poverty policies have to be constructed to meet the needs of particular groups in populations, such as ethnic minorities, disabled people, and older people. Discrimination has to be countered in...
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“A patchwork heritage”: multiracial citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father
in Obama and the Biracial Factor
February 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: race and ethnicity. 7866 words.
An examination of the role of ethnic citation and self-representation in multiracial autobiographies using Dreams From My Father as a case study.
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A (persistent) state of uncertainty
in The British in Rural France
May 2011; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: sociology. 8689 words.
Building on the theme of imagination, this chapter further explores tensions between how the migrants had imagined their post-migration lives and their lived experiences. It questions the...
‘A scar on the soul of Britain’: child poverty and disadvantage under New Labour
in Towards a more equal society?
February 2009; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social stratification, inequality, and mobility. 9323 words.
This chapter looks at the government's efforts to improve living standards and opportunities for the poorest children. It assesses progress towards the child-poverty targets as well as the impact of...
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“A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues”
in Solidarity in Strategy
July 2012; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: occupations, professions, and work. 17150 words.
This chapter explores the standard neoinstitutionalist account, arguing that it borders on circularity if it relies on the putative prior existence of shared interests and it underestimates...
“A Tense and Permeable Boundary”
in Solidarity in Strategy
July 2012; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: occupations, professions, and work. 17075 words.
This chapter amplifies the findings about business associations' political orientations, strategies of action, and vocabularies of motive. It examines their publicly oriented languages and...