Malcolm Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343055
- eISBN:
- 9781447302537
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343055.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Issues of ‘difference’ are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its ...
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Issues of ‘difference’ are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity, and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, it shows how difference is regulated in housing. The book deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective that is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. It brings disability, ethnicity, and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure, and diversity; develops the ideas of ‘difference within difference’ and ‘social regulation’; and looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state.Less
Issues of ‘difference’ are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity, and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, it shows how difference is regulated in housing. The book deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective that is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. It brings disability, ethnicity, and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure, and diversity; develops the ideas of ‘difference within difference’ and ‘social regulation’; and looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state.
Malcolm Harrison and Cathy Davis
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343055
- eISBN:
- 9781447302537
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343055.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This introductory chapter discusses the theoretical issues, starting with the impact of ‘difference’ and diversity. It points out the continuing significance of the ongoing structural forces that ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the theoretical issues, starting with the impact of ‘difference’ and diversity. It points out the continuing significance of the ongoing structural forces that condition the choices of people, and looks at how to bring experiential diversity and the effects of structure together in a simple model. The discussion introduces two terms, social regulation and difference within difference, which are used further on in the book. The chapter also provides an analysis in relation to welfare state theory, which is then followed by an outline of the material on the policy context and a summary of the UK welfare state changes since the end of the 1970s.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the theoretical issues, starting with the impact of ‘difference’ and diversity. It points out the continuing significance of the ongoing structural forces that condition the choices of people, and looks at how to bring experiential diversity and the effects of structure together in a simple model. The discussion introduces two terms, social regulation and difference within difference, which are used further on in the book. The chapter also provides an analysis in relation to welfare state theory, which is then followed by an outline of the material on the policy context and a summary of the UK welfare state changes since the end of the 1970s.
