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Building Better Societies

By Michael Orton & Sophie Body-Gendrot &
Building Better Societies by Michael Orton & Sophie Body-Gendrot &  digital book - Fable

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What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.

The book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. It argues that social scientists need to cast aside their commitment to the established order and its ideological support systems, look ahead at the likely outcomes of various interventions and move to the forefront of informed political debate.

Providing practical steps and policy programmes, this is ideal for academics and students across a wide range of social science fields and those interested in social inequality.

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About Michael Orton

Building Better Societies (Chapter: Building a better future: Some practical policy steps)

Sophie Body-Gendrot

Book: Building Better Societies (Chapter: Cities, Crises and the Future)

Sam Burgum

Birmingham City University

Gretel Taylor

Deborah Joy-Warr

University of Melbourne

Martin Coward

Keith Jacobs

Rowland Atkinson

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Books: Better society

Lisa Mckenzie

Dr Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science, working as part of the Great British Class Survey Team. Her previous research focused upon the poor working class and her current research interests relate to the precarious and vulnerable nature of particular groups in our society through insecure housing, work, social benefits, health care, and education. She is author of the bestselling Getting by: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Books: Building Better society; Society Better: Thinking the pro-social

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