RE-STATING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE by Colin Hay ( 9780335193875 )

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RE-STATING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE

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ISBN 10:

0335193870

ISBN 13:

9780335193875

Publisher:

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1996

Series:

Sociology & Social Change

Pages:

192

Description:

This volume proposes that a democratic educational vision can only be effectively advanced by renewing the "struggle for democracy". It provides a selective history of English education and connects the educational policies of the 80s and 90s to the political ideas of the New Right.

Synopsis:

Re-Stating Social and Political Change provides a critical introduction to the social, political and cultural changes that have occurred in Britain since the war, and argues that these changes can best be understood in terms of a theory of the state. Re-Stating Social and Political Change reviews and assesses the major theories of the state that have sought to diagnose and explain the trajectories of western societies. It provides a powerful case for the study of the state, and demonstrates how state theory can shed new light on war, social change, the extension of citizenship, the emergence of a patriarchal welfare state, the crisis of the state and the rise and demise of Thatcherism. Features: focuses on 'real' examples from post-war British society. Makes considerable use of figures, tables and diagrams. each chapter is structured around a key set of questions and issues. a genuinely introductory critical account of existing theories. Colin Hay has written a broad introduction to this pressing topic, which presents a new and distinctive argument about the role of the state in our understanding of social and political change.He also examines the impact of Thatcherism on the state, the possibility of a post-Thatcherism settlement and the role of the current Labour Party, and assesses the prognosis for the future. Re-Stating Social and Political Change will be important reading for second and third year students of sociology, social and political theory, politics, social policy and women's studies.

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Open University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1996

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Non-returnable

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