The Inclusive Society?

Social Exclusion and New Labour
1998. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-333-73086-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

A topical critical examination of the idea of social exclusion and the new political language of social cohesion, community, stakeholding and inclusion. The Inclusive Society? examines the actions and rhetoric of the Labour Party and Labour Government under Tony Blair's leadership. It identifies three different discourses of social exclusion. Using this model, it explores views of inclusion put forward by Will Hutton and other stakeholders, by communitarians including Etzioni and Gray, and by the Labour Party from the Borrie and the Commission on Social Justice to Blair and the Social Exclusion Unit.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levitas, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Discourses of Social Exclusion From Social Justice to Social Cohesion The Optimism of Will Staking Claims Community Rules New Labour, New Discourse From Equality to Social Inclusion Delivering Social Inclusion The New Durkheimian Hegemony Notes Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Levitas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, founding Chair of the Utopian Studies Society Europe, and Chair of the William Morris Society. Her publications include The Concept of Utopia. In 2012 she received the Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Utopian Studies.