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Contemporary social evils
Title
Contemporary social evils / edited by David Utting.
ISBN
9781847427403
9781847424099
Publication
Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (256 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Contents
'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.
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