..., that is, to turn the vicious circle of non-cooperation into a virtuous circle based on trust and cooperation. The primary aim of the project is to contribute to theories on social capital, and particularly to analyse whether institutions matter for the development of generalised trust. In the book, the impact...

... theories on social capital and civic education, the book presents and analyses quantitative and qualitative research carried out in seven public schools in Palermo, some situated in extremely difficult areas dominated by drugs, violence and organised crime....

... perceptions and experiences of them. In the IR and Security Studies literature the impact of the social constructivist turn, alongside the broadening and deepening of the security agenda, has meant that threats are now widely seen as produced through dialogue and interaction between states and non-state...

... Social class In this chapter, we focus on a period of extremely fruitful aesthetic production for Hines, in terms of the novels and screenplays that followed A Kestrel for a Knave. During the 1970s, Hines’s political energies were directed towards considering the institutions...

... parties community relations flag Connolly P Hughes J Knox C parental choice Allport G Pettigrew T prejudice stereotypes Wenger E Duffy G Catholic Church the Education Integrated education Shared education Social cohesion Northern Ireland Mass education systems have always struggled...

...Social exclusion, discrimination and widespread disadvantage are common to the Traveller community. The issue of social exclusion affects all areas of Irish Travellers' lives, including education. The difficulties facing Travellers with regard to formal education were recognised by the European...

... by the two emerging mass political movements in the Empire: the Christian Socials and Social Democrats. The final triumph of the pan-German project was marked by the heralding of the Austrofascist state in 1933. The success of the project reflected the consolidated incarnation of various interpretations...

... and bodies of emigrants from Britain and other parts of the world, in the circulating meanings of colonial health and models of welfare and social institutions, and , in the knowledge about insanity and treatment for it. It focuses on urban sites, comparisons and connections between these in historical...

... of the chapter surveys the range of government organisations, voluntary groups and private individuals that played a part in recruitment; the second half provides a detailed examination of the clergy themselves. A number of questions about the recruitment, training, education and social and ethnic backgrounds...

... that occupy this space and traces the key lines of government. Recent rationalities to emerge in this regard are those of ‘community’ and ‘citizenship’. Rationalities such as social work, probation and psychology began to gain prominence in the 1960s as the dominant religious discourses began to be challenged...

...This chapter develops the book’s analytical framework and situates the monograph within the field of studies on migration and religion. It argues that ritual performance can be used as a ‘cultural prism’ to shed new light on important themes in anthropological research on migration: social networks...

... productivity growth employment rate European Union family policy gender gaps gender mainstreaming labour market segregation positive action United Nations future knowledge open method of coordination quantitative targets Rubery Jill social inclusion Lisbon Strategy Broad Economic Policy...

...The third chapter reflects on new youth activism within the wider context of what has been termed ‘the new social movements’. It addresses the broader transnational influence of movements abroad, and shows how new areas for political expression opened up around peace, anti-militarism...

...Jeremy Nuttall’s chapter examines the many-sided relationship between social democracy and ‘the people’ in Britain. Standing up for ordinary people is the very purpose of social democracy, and yet the people have frequently seemed to social democrats a disappointment. Yet, the chapter also suggests...

... with the imperatives of republican social democracy, and that somewhat ironically, Scottish independence from the United Kingdom could have the effect of finally shifting England into more pluralist and republican forms of governance; it could also prompt England, he argues, to forge a stronger link between democratic...

...Clare Griffiths probes the historical and political implications of the social and psychological concept of ‘neighbourliness’, especially as it played out in that pivotal moment of apparent social democratic ascendancy, the 1940s, and the ‘People’s War’. In line with the revisionist historiography...

...David Owen, in chapter thirteen, reflects upon the underlying concerns that he and David Marquand share in principle: creating conditions to foster a more equitable distribution of wealth and resources in Britain, as well as a bottom-up, republican social democracy championing the virtues...

... ‘for the people’, when they are merely speaking to the people, while also fraudulently framing the people as a ‘homogenous and monolithic whole’. Labour Party Llais Llafur ‘Labour Voice’ Marquand David Rees David James socialism Corbyn Jeremy Dahrendorf Ralf House of Lords Maclennan...

...This chapter assesses the key theoretical presuppositions of ethnomethodology: that social order – interpreted as the intelligibility of coordinated patterns of action - is the central focus of sociological (and perhaps even of all social scientific) inquiry; that Parsons’ ‘analytical realism...

...Between 1945-1989 we can trace a growing conflation of economic liberalism with social and cultural liberalism, such that social liberalism becomes engulfed by neoliberal capital and subsumed under market fundamentalism. As a consequence, there emerges a political debate about liberal societies...