Social Theory and Social Policy

Robert (Bob) Pinker served his academic apprenticeship in Richard Titmuss’s department at the LSE from the late 1950s under Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend, as a research worker and a higher degree student. Successive academic appointments followed at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College and then the LSE, from where he retired in 1996 as Professor of Social Administration.

• Part 1: Social Theory and the Development of Social Administration 1. A Search for Paternity Amongst the Founding Fathers 2. The Origins of Social Administration Part 2: The Uses of Social Theory 3. Ideology, Rhetoric and Evidence 4. Exchange and Stigma 5. Some Current Problems in Social Policy.

‘Social Theory and Social Policy broke new ground. For students and for their teachers [it] opened new windows on to that field.' John Offer