How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? Any democratic society is inevitably confronted by this basic question. This book reviews existing research on elites and their interactions with those around them. It looks at how the recruitment to elites changes in the long run according to class and gender.

Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings the collapse of major private care home providers abject failures of inspection and regulation and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short form book part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette give an historical overview of adult social care. The roots of the current crisis are located in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades. The authors critically examine recent developments in social work with adults including the personalisation agenda and the prospects for adult social care and social work in a context of seemingly never-ending austerity.

The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel John Turner and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory as well as setting it in the context of other approaches and perspectives in the psychology of intergroup relations. They look at the way people derive their identity from the social groups to which they belong and the consequences for their feelings thoughts and behaviour of psychologically belonging to a group. They go on to examine the relationship between the individual and society in the context of a discussion of discrimination stereotyping and intergroup relations conformity and social influence cohesiveness and intragoup solidariy language and ethnic group relations and collective behaviour. Social Identifications fills a gap in the literature available to students of social psychology. The authors presentation of social identity theory in a complete and integrated form and the extensive references and suggestions for further reading they provide will make this an essential source book for social psychologists and other social scientists looking at group behaviour.

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