International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 25 Issue 12

Reforms, rights or wrongs? A foucauldian exploration of the new mental health bill in the United Kingdom

Mark Bertram, Jason L. Powell

This article deconstructs the hagiography surrounding British mental health policy and provides a critical analysis of the ‘New Labour’ Government reforms of the Mental Health Act…

Effects of power, status and class on “who gets what” income

Milan Zafirovski

This article’s indented contribution is to provide novel theoretical insights and empirical observations on “who gets what” in the way of incomes, including wages. The article…

Hate Crimes: A brief review

Jenny Ardley

This article aims to give a brief background and overview of the current discourse surrounding hate crime. The author discusses the difficulties of defining hate crime how…

Targowiska: Polish street markets today

Thomas K. Tiemann

Poles do much of their shopping outdoors. In any city with urban bus or tram service, and in many towns without, there are kiosks on important street corners that sell bus or tram…

Where does all the money go? An investigation of donation filtration

Saher Shaikh, Carolan McLarney

There has been much social and legal debate over the definition of the word “charity.” For some it is a path way to heaven, for others, it plays a decisive role in anti‐trust…

Language, truth and meaning: A defence of modernism

Hugh V. McLachlan

Relativism, at least in some of its forms, is antithetical to sociology as traditionally practiced and conceived. (See, for instance, Benton and Crabb, 2001, pp.50‐74 and 93‐1006;…