PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
The rationale of the book
The structure of the book
How to read the book
Part One. The meaning of public engagement
Introduction to Part One
1. Café scientifique and the art of engaging publics
Introduction
Science and society: from communication to deliberation
What is public engagement?
Public engagement in higher education
Public engagement and social science
2. Social Science in the City™: reflections on public engagement
The broader political context
The origins and aims of Social Science in the City
Concluding remarks
Part Two. Public engagement in practice
Introduction to Part Two
3. ‘Grab and go’: some sociological musings on the 2011 ‘disturbances’
Some explanations
Revisiting the ‘classics’
Durkheim’s ghost
Individualism and civic responsibility
Summary
Reflection
4. 1976 – the moral necessity of austerity
Introduction
Austerity: a new moral panic?
Back to the future
Panic in the Cabinet
The cost of living
Conclusion
5. The Occupy movement
Theme One: physical
Theme Two: metaphysical
Conclusion
6. ‘Brave new world’: how will the government respond to the social care challenge of an ageing population?
Introduction
Public engagement and understanding old age
Public understanding of social care
Social care and older people: four concerns to alert the public about
Towards an affordable personalised care system or the continuation of a crisis in social care?
Key messages and engaging with the public
Communication options and the importance of new professionals
7. Road wars: contesting paradigms of road safety, public space and well-being
The road safety paradigm
Participatory innovation
Community responses to traffic encroachment
Shared space
Neighbourhood responses to environmental degradation
8. Restorative justice, community action and public protection
Introduction
Current approaches to offender punishment and management
Restorative justice
Restorative justice in the UK
Restorative justice and youth crime
Restorative justice and sex offenders
The impact of restorative justice on victims
Conclusions
9. Chew ’em up or throw ’em up? Disorganised responses to interpersonal(ity) disorder and social disease
Introduction
Psychosocial dynamics of membership and refusal in public–private spaces
Structural violence and the traumatising society
Housing unhoused minds and bodies: the disorganised response to the refusal to join in
Incohesive social defences against anxiety
Some concluding remarks
10. Resilience
My personal interest in the subject
Two traditions of research: psychological and ecological
Personal resilience
Ecological resilience
‘Resilience thinking’
Part Three. Applying Social Science in the City™ and beyond
Introduction to Part Three
11. Social science and severely troubled children – working in partnership, working in and
on relationship
The collaboration and its background
Animating ideas
Impacts and lessons
12. The professional impact of Social Science in the City™
Introduction
Overview
Beginnings of an inner city teaching career
A desire to research
New possibilities at Social Science in the City
13. Sharing worlds: managing complex community relationships in challenging times
What is Community Resolve?
The Bristol context
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’
Making the theory–practice link
Conclusion
14. Talking about personal experience and its relationship to social inequality across the generations
Introduction
My work
Why storytelling?
Applying Social Science in the City™: a vignette from my work
Oppressive structures
Conclusion
15. Social research, community engagement and learning through partnerships: a collaborative project
Background to the project
General recollections: narratives of the past
Two nostalgic narratives: hope and despair
A dominant discourse of decline
Conclusions
16. A student’s reflections on engaging in social science
Training prior to the event
Reflections on Lockleaze tea party by Michael Nash, a second-year undergraduate in criminology
Conclusions: Managing public engagement
Revisiting Burawoy
Index