‘Introducing Michael Gove toLoïcWacquant’: Why Social Work Needs Critical Sociology

‘Introducing Michael Gove to Loïc Wacquant’: Why Social Work Needs Critical Sociology

In 2013, Michael Gove, then Secretary of State for Education and Health in the UK coalition government, criticised social workers for laying insufficient emphasis on the 'agency' of individuals and for being too preoccupied with social and economic inequalities. Such a perspective, which is not unique to Gove, needs to be countered by reaffirming the significance of an expansively critical soci...

1 Introducing Economic Sociology

As a designated field of inquiry, economic sociology is not much more than a century old, even though its intellectual roots are identifiable in older traditions of philosophical and social thought. During the past quarter-century it has experienced an explosive growth, and now stands as one of the most conspicuous and vital subfields of its parent discipline. In this introduction we first defi...

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