John Rodger
Contact details
Room L115 (Paisley Campus)
Tel: 0141 848 3785
E-mail: john.rodger@uws.ac.uk
Staff profile
Dr John Rodger is Reader in Social Policy and Sociology and currently Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the School of Social Sciences. His main research interests today are in criminal justice policy; family life and social welfare and welfare theory. In the past he has undertaken research in the sociology of public administration, with a special interest in the use of large public inquiries as instruments of government in the context of major community and national protest. His doctoral research was on the formulation and presentation of opposition to North Sea oil and gas onshore development in sparsely populated areas of Scotland.
He has a particular interest in the changing context of contemporary social policy in a post-welfare state era. The abandonment of the modernist principles of welfare in an age of globalisation and conditionality has been a particular focus. His book From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society, Palgrave/Macmillan 2000 contains the main source for this work. It was translated into Italian in 2004 and published as Il Nuovo Welfare Societario: I fondamenti delle politiche sociali nell’eta postmoderna, Trento: Erickson.
Recent work has concentrated on the application of Norbert Elias’ theory of the civilising process to an analysis of antisocial behaviour. In particular he is researching into the phenomenon of the criminalisation of social policy and the strategic importance of crime for contemporary models of governance, the main outlines of that research are contained in his book Criminalising Social Policy: antisocial behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society, Willan, 2008.
Selected Publications
2008 Criminalising Social Policy: antisocial behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society, Cullompton: Willan.
2006 ‘Antisocial Families and Withholding Welfare Support’ Critical Social Policy, 26, (1): 121-143.
2004 Il Nuovo Welfare Societario: I fondamenti delle politiche sociali nell’eta postmoderna, Trento: Erickson.
2003 ‘Social Solidarity, Welfare and Post-Emotionalism’, Journal of Social Policy, 32, (3): 403-421.
2003 ‘Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: social steering and the personal sphere’ in S. Cunningham-Burley and L. Jamieson (eds) Families and the State: changing relationships, Basingstoke: Palgrave.