Civic Engagement

Robin G. Milne

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Routledge
14 February 2019

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology: work & labour; Educational strategies & policy; Medical sociology

Series: Contemporary Issues in Social Science

Civic engagement in this book is understood to include attendance at booked National Health Service appointments; compulsory attendance at school; the take-up of a variety of State benefits in cash and kind, such as Pension Credit and free school meals; and attendance at work. This book is the outcome of a collaborative exercise, in which specialists in a variety of disciplines have come together to better understand the state of civic engagement in the fields of health, education, social security, and employment. Their research is drawn primarily from the British experience, but the phenomena studied are international in scope.

Generally, civic engagement has been improving, but in certain areas there are serious gaps that still need addressing. Administrative arrangements are shown to reduce absence for booked appointments, without necessarily making referred patients more or less likely to attend. A variety of measures are suggested for truancy, and the take-up of social security benefits faces a number of issues. Work absence attributed to sickness is at least partly viewed as a psychosocial problem. Economic analysis shows the importance of incentives, and the potential cost of changing from selective to the universal provision of free school meals. Taken together, the sociological analysis in the book highlights the fragmentation of society and its consequences for civic engagement. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Edited by: Robin G. Milne
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367234980
ISBN 10: 036723498X
Series: Contemporary Issues in Social Science
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 14 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword 1. Recent trends in civic disengagement 2. Entitlement and adherence in schools 3. Absence from work 4. Housing benefit: slow on the take-up? 5. School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of free school meals in Scottish secondary schools, 2014 6. Using administrative innovation to address missed consultant outpatient appointments 7. Using economic analysis to increase civic engagement 8. (Dis)appointment: conspicuous absence in contemporary society

Robin G. Milne was an Honorary Research Fellow and is now Specialist Professional in Economics at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he was previously Senior Lecturer.