About Public Sociology
in Public Sociology
June 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 7855 words.
This chapter holds that Burawoy's conception of public sociology and reflexive knowledge is, at the same time, overly categorical—imposing sharp distinctions on a social world and...
Absolutism Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
in Major thinkers in welfare
April 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 11101 words.
This chapter discusses the two main political ideologies that resulted from the civil war and its aftermath during the mid-17th-century England. The first is the absolutism of Thomas Hobbes, while...
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Activation policies and the European Social Model
in Unwrapping the European social model
July 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 11239 words.
This chapter starts with a discussion of the factors leading to welfare reform in the US, including the moral and economic crises perceived by both liberal and conservative lawmakers. The next...
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Activation policies as reflexive social policies
in Active social policies in the EU
September 2002; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 12484 words.
This chapter evaluates the research results from an active social policy perspective. Since the development of social policies increasingly takes place in a context of EU policy making, this chapter...
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Active social policies in the EU
September 2002; published online March 2012.
Book. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 240 pages.
This book challenges the underlying presupposition that regular employment is the royal road to inclusion. Drawing on original empirical research, it investigates the inclusionary and exclusionary...
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Additional Theoretical Reflections
in The Odyssey Experience
May 2009; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 3969 words.
The core value in the odyssey experience is the temporary lifting of routines, punctuated by a phase of less structured threshold, and resulting in a restructuring and re-entry into the world of...
Administering global welfare: public management, governance and the new role of INGOs
in Administering welfare reform
March 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 9630 words.
This chapter identifies the key changes in the organisational environment that fall mainly within the globalisation of governance institutions in two interrelated areas: public management and social...
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Administering welfare reform
March 2006; published online March 2012.
Book. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 304 pages.
While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new...
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The administration of transformation: a case study of implementing welfare reform in the UK
in Administering welfare reform
March 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: comparative and historical sociology. 7900 words.
This chapter aims to provide a microlevel analysis of the unemployment policy that assesses the significance, extent, and character of change. This analysis uses the perspectives of frontline staff...
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Adolescence
in Sociology
Published online April 2012.
Article. Subjects: sociology; comparative and historical sociology; economic sociology; gender and sexuality; health, illness, and medicine; population and demography; race and ethnicity; social movements and social change; social stratification, inequality, and mobility; social theory. 13493 words.
The sociology of adolescence focuses on biological, social, economic, and psychological development of youth during the period between childhood and adulthood. In this period, typical...