The Social Construction of Social Policy: Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship and the Environment

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
‘Probably, Minister …’: the ‘Strong Programme’ Approach to the Relationship between Research and Policy....Pages 17-33
How (and How Not) to Design Research to Inform Policy-making....Pages 34-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Naming Difference: Race-thinking, Common Sense and Sociology....Pages 57-67
Consanguinity and Related Demons: Science and Racism in the Debate on Consanguinity and Birth Outcome....Pages 68-87
Representations of Asians’ Mental Health in British Psychiatry....Pages 88-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Difference in the City: Locating Marginal Use of Public Space....Pages 109-125
No Key — No Door? Young People’s Access to Housing....Pages 126-147
‘Island Homes for Island People’: Competition, Conflict and Racism in the Battle over Public Housing on the Isle of Dogs....Pages 148-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Contracting Knowledge: Commissioned Research and the Sociology of the Environment....Pages 171-192
Us and Them: The Construction and Maintenance of Divisions in a Planning Dispute....Pages 193-209
Inter-organisational Negotiations in Political Decision-making: Brussels’ EC Bureaucrats and the Environment....Pages 210-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-230