Promoting social cohesion [electronic resource] : Implications for policy and evaluation
Ratcliffe, Peter.
Newman, Ines.
Bristol, U.K. ; Portland, Ore. : Policy Press,
2011.
This book calls for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to social cohesion, and makes a valuable source both for practitioners, researchers and students.
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Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Promoting social cohesion; Theoretical perspectives; Evaluation and data: methodological issues; Implications for policy of the need for enhancedsocial cohesiveness; Part One Theoretical perspectives; 1 From community to social cohesion: interrogating a policy paradigm; 2 Evaluating social cohesion; Part Two Community cohesion to social cohesion: evaluation and data -methodological issues; 3 Measuring performance in community cohesion; 4 Migration, race and population dynamics
5 Using local administrative data to evaluate social and community cohesion6 Assessing the impact of social cohesion initiatives in a media age: methodological and theoretical considerations; 7 Social cohesion in the local delivery context: understanding equality and the importance of local knowledge; Part Three Policy areas; 8 Housing, spatial patterns and social cohesion; 9 Education policy, social cohesion and citizenship; 10 Addressing worklessness post the financial crisis; 11 New communities and social cohesion: third sector approaches to evaluation
12 Evaluating the contribution of intergenerational practice to achieving social cohesionPart Four Conclusion; 13 Conclusion: towards a theory of change for social cohesion; Index
This book calls for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to social cohesion, and makes a valuable source both for practitioners, researchers and students.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Social networks.
Social participation.
Cultural pluralism
Multiculturalism
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Change