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European Cosmopolitan Solidarity (2006)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2006). European Cosmopolitan Solidarity. European Journal of Social Theory, 9(4),

The idea of a cosmopolitan Europe continues to be central to contemporary debates within post-national citizenship. However, much of the writing in this area remains disconnected from the need to reinvent European social democracy that questions the... Read More about European Cosmopolitan Solidarity.

Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics. (2005)
Journal Article
Yip, A. (2005). Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics. Sociology, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038505049000

Religious authority figures often use religious texts as the primary basis for censuring homosexuality. In recent years, however, non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims have begun to contest the discursively produced boundary of sexual morality.Draw... Read More about Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics..

The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations (2005)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, T. (2005). The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations

Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, th... Read More about The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations.

European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society (2005)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2005). European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 18(1),

The discussion of European cosmopolitanism and civil society has failed to take questions of culture seriously enough. While remaining sympathetic to liberal forms of cosmopolitanism, this article considers the view that such proposals fail to make s... Read More about European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society.

Social Policy and Time (2004)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, T. (2004). Social Policy and Time. Time and Society, 13(2/3),

Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within whi... Read More about Social Policy and Time.

Ageing in a non-heterosexual context. (2004)
Journal Article
Heaphy, B., Yip, A., & Thompson, D. (2004). Ageing in a non-heterosexual context. Ageing and Society, 24(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X0300160

There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gend... Read More about Ageing in a non-heterosexual context..

Anticipatory Accounts (2004)
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Murphy, E. (2004). Anticipatory Accounts. Symbolic Interaction, 27(2),

C. Wright Mills called for a truly sociological analysis of actors’ “motive talk,” which decouples the commonsense link between the reasons actors give for their actions and their mental state prior to those actions. Subsequent theoretical and empiri... Read More about Anticipatory Accounts.

Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families (2003)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2003). Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families. Sociological Review, 51(4),

This paper examines the relationship between the state and the individual in relation to an aspect of mundane family life – the feeding of babies and young children. The nutritional status of children has long been a matter of national concern and i... Read More about Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families.

Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development (2002)
Journal Article
Middleton, H., Adeniran, R., Brewin, C. R., Brady, C., Duggan, C., Hopkins, N., …Walton, M. (2002). Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development. Journal of Mental Health, 11,

Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-... Read More about Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development.

Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations (2002)
Journal Article
Stafford, B. (2002). Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations. Social Policy and Society, 1(4),

Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators co... Read More about Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations.

Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites
Journal Article
Parker, D., & Song, M. Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(7),

Previous work has drawn attention to the relative absence of British Chinese voices in public culture. No one is more aware of this invisibility than British-born Chinese people themselves. Since 2000 the emergence of Internet discussion sites prod... Read More about Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites.

"Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(1),

Public involvement in healthcare is a prominent policy in countries across the economically developed world. A growing body of academic literature has focused on public participation, often presenting dichotomies between good and bad practice: betwe... Read More about "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare.