Book Reviews: Democracy and Community: A Study of Politics in Sheffield, British Social Policy, 1914–1939, Exploration into Child Care, Introduction to Social Research, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organisations, Race and Racialism, The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory, Religious Sects, Rural Exodus: A Study of the Forces Influencing the Large-Scale Migration of Irish Rural Youth, Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge, Social Policy in Context, Let's Look at the Figures, Merseyside Social and Economic Studies, The Sociology of Art and Literature, The Social Context of Art, The Uneasy Partnership: Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twentieth Century, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, Language and Poverty: Perspectives on a Theme

1971 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-460
Author(s):  
John Sewel ◽  
Jill Irene Low ◽  
Michael Wood ◽  
M. Sami Kassem ◽  
John E. Tibbitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
Religious Sects ◽  
Coming Crisis ◽  
Rural Exodus

scholarly journals The Relevance of Inequality Research in Sociology for Inequality Reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110201
Author(s):  
Thomas A. DiPrete ◽  
Brittany N. Fox-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
The Subject

Social inequality is a central topic of research in the social sciences. Decades of research have deepened our understanding of the characteristics and causes of social inequality. At the same time, social inequality has markedly increased during the past 40 years, and progress on reducing poverty and improving the life chances of Americans in the bottom half of the distribution has been frustratingly slow. How useful has sociological research been to the task of reducing inequality? The authors analyze the stance taken by sociological research on the subject of reducing inequality. They identify an imbalance in the literature between the discipline’s continual efforts to motivate the plausibility of large-scale change and its lesser efforts to identify feasible strategies of change either through social policy or by enhancing individual and local agency with the potential to cumulate into meaningful progress on inequality reduction.

The Social Research-Social Policy Nexus

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 678
Author(s):  
Joel J. Schwartz ◽  
Elizabeth T. Crawford ◽  
Albert D. Biderman ◽  
Howard E. Freeman ◽  
Clarence C. Sherwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The Social

Missionary Zeal and the Scholarly Stance: Policy and Commitment in Research on Old Age

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Smith
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Missionary Zeal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThere is a danger that the ‘missionary zeal’ exhibited by some social gerontologists in the interests of those members of society who are older than others, may endanger the subject's ‘scholarly stance’ and the potential contribution to social policy of research on old age. This paper discusses four facets of the matter: (1) the anticipated values underpinning policies of state welfare (2) personal feelings and values in the business of research (3) values and the kind of data we value and (4) the question of whose side we are on. The paper concludes with a theoretical model of the relationship between the social policy process and the social research process as framework for understanding exactly how values about ageing impact both research about ageing and the relationship between that research and relevant social policies.

Development of Welfare State under Automation Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 467-471
Author(s):  
Fang Liu ◽  
Qi Wu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Automation Control

This article has embedded welfare triangle paradigm in empirical research by social exclusion and social policy. Starting from the situation in Sweden and Finland, it has analyzed the convergence and the differences in paradigm content. At the same time, by using the social research to quantitative analysis the data, it has drawn the economic recession and recovery. Based on the above analysis, it is necessary to build a welfare system that in line with the national condition, to select a long-term welfare system mechanism, and to constantly improve the prototype of the welfare system that has begun to take shape.

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