Contents

pp iii-iv

Foreword

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

1 - Introduction

pp 1-4

2 - ‘Social evils’ and ‘social problems’ in Britain since 1904

pp 5-24

Section 1 - Public Voices

pp 25-26

3 - Uneasy and powerless: views from the online consultation

pp 27-50

4 - Truncated opportunities: eliciting unheard voices on social evils

pp 51-64

5 - Living with social evils: further views from people indisadvantaged groups

pp 65-82

Section 2 - Viewpoints

pp 83-84

6 - Preface

pp 85-90

A decline of values

7 - Has there been a decline in values in British society?

pp 91-102

8 - Social evils and social good

pp 103-114

9 - Unkind, risk averse and untrusting: if this is today’s society, can we change it?

pp 115-124

Distrust

10 - What and who is it we don't trust?

pp 125-134

11 - Fear and distrust in 21st-century Britain

pp 135-146

The absence of society

12 - The absence of society

pp 147-158

Individualism

13 - A wrong turn in the search for freedom?

pp 159-168

14 - Individualism and community: investing in civil society

pp 169-180

Inequality

15 - Opportunity and aspiration: two sides of the same coin?

pp 181-192

16 - Five types of inequality

pp 193-202

17 - The poor and the unequal

pp 203-212

Section 3 - Reflections

pp 213-214