On social policy studies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Offer
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
London School ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Academic Subject ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Research Officer

Pinker’s best known book is Social Theory and Social Policy, published in 1971. Its primary task was to review the problematic assumptions and methods in the study of social policy which Pinker found in the new academic subject of what was then called ‘social administration’. Later, in 2000, Pinker gave a lecture offering a bird’s-eye view of some of the formative influences he experienced as a Research Officer and student from the mid-1950s at the London School of Economics, which gave him his abiding interest in the broad field of social policy studies....

Richard Titmuss and the making of British social policy studies after the Second World War: a reappraisal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pinker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
London School ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Unitary Approach ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss

In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses Richard Titmuss's role in the making of British social policy studies after World War II. He begins with his impressions of Titmuss and his early experiences, and how his thoughts on the ends and means of social policy developed to maturity. In 1950, Titmuss published Problems of Social Policy, a study of the impact of war on British civil society and the response of the social services. During that same year, he was appointed to the Chair of Social Administration at the London School of Economics. Pinker considers a number of distinctive and often controversial features that characterised Titmuss's collectivist and unitary approach to the discussion of social policy and social problems. He also talks about the ‘conditional’ as opposed to what Titmuss claims is the open-ended nature of altruism and reciprocity in everyday life by focusing on on Titmuss's 1970 book The Gift Relationship.

scholarly journals The Employment of Migrant Workers in Long-Term Care: Dynamics of Choice and Control – ERRATUM

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-231
Author(s):  
Isabel Shutes
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
London School ◽  
Term Care ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
And Control

Within the article by Shutes (first published online, 15 September 2011) the Author's affiliation was incorrectly inserted during the production process. The correct affiliation is the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, and the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. The publisher apologises for any inconvenience this has caused.

The History of Sociology in Britain

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Halsey
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
London School ◽  
History Of Sociology ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
London School Of Economics

This chapter discusses the battle between literature and science for domination of sociology, a topic that has rather been neglected as a theme in the history of sociology in Britain if also perhaps overheated nowadays in exchanges over relativism between the denizens of ‘cultural studies’ and the proponents of a ‘science of society’. The chapter argues that, traditionally, the social territory belonged to literature and philosophy. A challenge was then raised by science especially in the nineteenth century. Then, especially in the twentieth century, social science developed so as to turn a binary contrast into a triangular one. Sociology had three sources in Western thought: one literary (political philosophy), one quasi-scientific (the philosophy of history), and one scientific (biology). It is no accident that both sociology and social policy were placed first at the London School of Economics, the Fabian institution invented and fostered by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1895.

‘For Richer, For Poorer’

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
London School ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss

Chapter 3 examines an unpublished policy document that Young submitted to the Labour Party Policy Committee in 1952 called ‘For Richer, For Poorer’, which marked a transition from Young’s public policy career towards sociology and social research. Young left his position in the Labour Party Research Department after the Conservative election victory in the 1951 general election, and undertook a Ph.D. in social administration at the London School of Economics supervised by the social policy thinker Richard Titmuss. Responding to the Labour Party’s failure to appeal to women voters in the 1951 election, ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ urged the Labour Party to pay more attention to family policy. Young integrated a historical vision of declining social cohesion caused by industrialization and suburbanization with contemporary concerns about the poverty of women and children that built on the work of earlier social poverty researchers and the feminist campaigns for a family allowance led by Eleanor Rathbone. This document reflected a turn in Young’s thought away from the focus on full employment and macro-economic planning which had characterized much of his policy work during the Attlee government, and towards thinking about social policy from the perspective of those he conceived of as non-workers, including the elderly, the unemployed, children, and women.

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