Promoting social cohesion: Implications for policy and evaluation

✍ Scribed by Ines Newman (editor); Peter Ratcliffe (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to the broader notion of social cohesion, and is distinctive and innovative in its focus on evaluation. It constitutes an extremely valuable source both for practitioners involved in social cohesion interventions and for researchers and students studying theory-based evaluation and the policy areas highlighted (housing, intergenerational issues, the recession, education, communications, community development).

✦ Table of Contents

Promoting social cohesion
Contents
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Theoretical perspectives
From community to social cohesion
Evaluating social cohesion
Part Two: Community cohesion to social cohesion: evaluation and data – methodological issues
Measuring performance in community cohesion
Migration, race and population dynamics
Using local administrative data to evaluate social and community cohesion
Assessing the impact of social cohesion initiatives in a media age
Social cohesion in the local delivery context
Part Three: Policy areas
Housing, spatial patterns and social cohesion
Education policy, social cohesion and citizenship
Addressing worklessness post the financial crisis
New communities and social cohesion
Evaluating the contribution of intergenerational practice to achieving social cohesion
Part Four: Conclusion
Conclusion