INFORMATION & UPDATES Publications


Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical


Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food


This book investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns. Shifting the focus from individual behaviour to the food supply and the way it is developed and marketed, the book discusses what is known about the shaping of food behaviours by both social theory and psychology. n Health, Food and Social Inequality: Critical Perspectives on the Supply and Marketing of Food by Carolyn Mahoney. ISBN 978-1138801295, (hardback), 286pp @ £85.00. For more information see: www.routledge.com/ products/


9781138801295


Making a Difference in Education


Making a Difference in Education discusses whether education policy has really been guided by the evidence, and explores why the failings of Britain’s educational system have been so resistant to change, as well as the success stories that have emerged. It looks at schooling from early years to age 16 and entry into Further Education, with a special focus on literacy, numeracy and IT. Reviewing a large body of research, the authors examine teacher performance, school quality and accountability, and the problematically large social gap that still exists in state school education today. n Making a Difference in Education by Robert Cassen, Sandra McNally and Anna Vignoles. ISBN 9780415529211, (hardback), 200pp @ £95.00. For more information see: www. routledge.com/ products/978041 5529228


Injustice: Why social inequality still persists


Since the first edition of Injustice there have been massive increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has collapsed in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. This fully rewritten and updated edition revisits Dorling’s claim that Beveridge’s five social evils are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. By showing these beliefs are unfounded, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. n Injustice: Why social inequality still persists by Danny Dorling. ISBN 978-1447320753 (paperback), 484pp @ £9.99. For more information see: www. policypress.co.uk/ display.asp?K=9781 447320753


Corpora and Discourse Studies


The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling swift analysis of millions of words of data, aided by computational methods. This edited collection contains examples of such contemporary research which uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. Authors examine a range of spoken, written, multimodal and electronic corpora covering themes which include health, academic writing, social class, ethnicity, gender, television narrative, news, Early Modern English and political speech. n Corpora and Discourse Studies by Paul Baker, Tony McEnery (eds). ISBN 9781137431721, (hardback), 320pp @ £63.00. For more information see: www.palgrave.com/ page/detail/corpora- and-discourse- studies-paul- baker/?K=978113 7431721


EVENTS 27-28 AUGUST


Social cognition: From evolution to applications – 2015 workshop


This workshop aims to encourage and continue interdisciplinary discussion of social cognition. It welcomes comparative psychologists, developmental psychologists, social neuroscientists, and psychologists working in clinical and applied domains, and challenges attendees to reflect on how their work relates to other academic and applied disciplines. sonicsocialcognition.weebly. com/2015-meeting.html


14 SEPTEMBER


Collaborative Housing and Community Resilience, Seminar 4/6


This event focuses on the challenges and opportunities in collaborative housing for supporting mutual self-reliance and providing specialist care (whether directly or by communities as commissioning entities). This draws attention to a continuum of need (ageing, disability, isolation) and different models. collaborativehousing.net


17-18 SEPTEMBER


The ‘5 Safes’ of secure access to confidential data


This one and a half day workshop organised by the UK Data Service will introduce what is involved in setting up a secure research facility and the principles to support international best practices for providing safe and secure access to confidential and sensitive microdata via secure remote access. The 5 Safes: Safe People, Safe Projects, Safe Settings, Safe Outputs, Safe Data. ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/ eventsitem/?id=4058


8 OCTOBER


Making it easier to use administrative data


This event introduces the work of the Administrative Data Research Network to researchers and data custodians and shows how it can ease the path to using administrative data. The programme includes: Administrative data - an exciting opportunity for research; how the Network can help; current research using UK administrative data; the RSS Data Manifesto; and strategic partnerships. www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/ events/34700/making-it-easier-to-use- administrative-data.aspx


SUMMER 2015 SOCIETY NOW 31 SPRING 2011


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36