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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WELFARE AND THE STATE

Volume 19

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE

MICHAEL SULLIVAN

First published in 1987 by Allen & Unwin

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1987 M. Sullivan

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Sociology and Social Welfare

MICHAEL SULLIVAN

University College, Swansea

London
ALLEN & UNWIN

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M. Sullivan, 1987
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Sullivan, Michael

Sociology and social welfare. (Studies in sociology; 14)

1. Social service Great Britain

I. Title II. Series

361'.941 HV245

ISBN 0-04-301213-2

ISBN 0-04-301214-0 Pbk

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Sullivan, Michael.

Sociology and social welfare.

(Studies in sociology; 14)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Public welfare Great Britain. 2. Welfare state. 3. Social service Great Britain. 4. Great Britain Social policy. I. Title. II. Series: Studies in sociology (George Allen & Unwin); 14.

HV245.S85 1987 361.6'1 86-17294

ISBN 0-04-301213-2 (alk. paper)

ISBN 0-04-301214-0 (pbk.:alk. paper)

Contents

Professor W. M. Williams first suggested that I should write this book after hearing a conference paper on which the last chapter is loosely based. My debt to him does not, however, end there: his presence along the corridor has been a continuous spur to complete the work more or less on time despite an ever-increasing teaching load; he has made very constructive comments on earlier drafts; and his swift reaction to the final draft of my manuscript minimized pre-submission anxiety levels.

Other debts need acknowledgement. Paul Wilding, first as teacher and then as senior colleague at University College, Cardiff, contributed largely to my social science apprenticeship. He acted as encourager, exemplar and intellectual stimulator. I hope this book, whatever its deficiencies, is some small repayment of his devotion of time, kindness and intellectual skills. The support of colleagues, and the incisive, if sometimes unwelcome, comments of students in the School of Social Studies at Swansea are gratefully acknowledged. Ken Davies, a postgraduate community work student in my sociology and social policy lecture series also deserves thanks. He identified, in a piece of written work, additional problems which needed to be grappled with in the writing of .

Edna Owen, Vera Quinn and Caryl Johnstone struggled personfully and happily with various and increasingly messy drafts of the manuscript. They have my thanks.

Finally I should acknowledge the contribution of Sue Sullivan and of my stepson Ben Dipper to the completion of this book. Sue lived with my uncertainties, helped clarify my thinking and was, despite her own doctoral work, usually longsuffering about my sometimes non-existent contribution to an already unequal division of domestic labour. Ben spent a number of evenings making good various bibliographic inadequacies. Other and remaining inadequacies in the text are, of course, my responsibility.

Michael Sullivan

Swansea

April 1986

Britain in the 1980s is, according to some commentators, a society in the grips of a process of fundamental social change. Radical right Conservative governments have, it is claimed, redrawn the boundaries of state involvement in civil society. Nowhere, it is argued, are these changes more evident than in contemporary attempts to roll back the state from involvement in welfare. This book is, in part, an attempt to understand the nature and scope of these apparent changes by contextualizing the study of welfare within a wider sociological analysis of state and society in postwar Britain.

Wright Mills, writing in the context of an American society in the throes of social change as far back as the 1950s, has suggested that to understand more fully the confusing collective and individual experiences of a society in transition there is a need for a quality of mind which he calls the sociological imagination.

It is not only information that they [i.e. those seeking to understand the social world] need It is not only skills of reason What they need and what they feel they need is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and what may be happening to themselves. (Mills, 1959)

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