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*Current Status: Professor, University of Leeds For Details (http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/prideaux.php) *Areas of Interest: - Direct Payment [Workshop] July 14, 2009 Points on Direct Payment: Asking Dr.Simon Prideaux [Books] Prideaux, S.J. (2005) Not So New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour's Policy and Practice Policy Press. ISBN-10: 1861344597 ISBN-13: 978-1861344595 [amazon]/[kinokuniya] [Explanation of Content of the Book] New Labour has concentrated many of its social policy initiatives on reinvigorating the family, community and work in the paid labour market. But just how 'new' are the ideas driving New Labour's policy and practice? In this book Simon Prideaux shows how New Labour has drawn on the ideas and premises of functionalism, which dominated British and American sociological thought during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The book: provides an accessible overview of the theories that underpin the policies of New Labour, including the often labyrinthine theories of Talcott Parsons, Amitai Etzioni and Anthony Giddens; examines the ideas of Charles Murray and John Macmurray, a philosopher publicly admired by Tony Blair; looks at the sociological origin of debates and controversies that surround the provision of welfare in both the US and UK; considers the alienating effects that New Deal schemes may have in Britain today. Not so New Labour's innovative approach to the analysis of social policy under New Labour will be valuable to academics, students and researchers in social policy, sociology, politics and applied social studies. [Journal Articles] Prideaux, S.J. (2005) John Macmurray and the 'Forgotten' Lessons of Capitalism and the Community. The Political Quarterly, 76(4), pp.540-549. Prideaux, S.J. (2002) From Organisational Theory to the New Communitarianism of Amitai Etzioni. Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 27(1), pp.69-81. Prideaux, S.J. (2001) New Labour, Old Functionalism: The Underlying Contradictions of Welfare Reform in the US and the UK. Social Policy and Administration, 35(1), pp.85-115 [Reports] Prideaux, S.J. (2006) Good Practice for Providing Reasonable Access to the Physical Built Environment for Disabled People, Disability Press, University of Leeds For Details (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/prideaux/prideaux%20S.%202006.pdf) UP:July 21, 2009 REV: WHO(English) WHO(Japanese) |