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The Peter Townsend Reader
Alan Walker
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Description for The Peter Townsend Reader
Paperback.
Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities. This reader brings together for the first time a collection of his most distinctive work, allowing readers to review changes and continuities over the past six decades, and reflect on social issues that have returned to the fore today. A particular feature of the volume is in tracing the links between empirical evidence and both social theory and social policy, and how those disciplines intersect. This reader will provide a teaching ... Read more
Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities. This reader brings together for the first time a collection of his most distinctive work, allowing readers to review changes and continuities over the past six decades, and reflect on social issues that have returned to the fore today. A particular feature of the volume is in tracing the links between empirical evidence and both social theory and social policy, and how those disciplines intersect. This reader will provide a teaching ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847424044
SKU
V9781847424044
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About Alan Walker
David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Ruth Levitas has been Professor of Sociology at Bristol since 2001, and a member of the Department of Sociology at Bristol since 1979. Peter Phillimore is professor of social anthropology at Newcastle University, ... Read more
Reviews for The Peter Townsend Reader
"..this reader is an inspiration to us to collect and publish evidence in the cause of social change - and that, I'm sure, is the legacy for which Townsend would have wished. (It) is everything which students of social policy would have asked for." Citizens' Income Newsletter "A valuable selection from the writings of an outstanding sociologist whose analyses ... Read more