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Social Policy and Time

School of Sociology & Social Policy, Nottingham University, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.Tony.Fitzpatrick{at}nottingham.ac.uk

Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within which the practices and assumptions of social actors are embedded. The article offers a more sophisticated theoretical account of time upon which is based an exploration of the main temporal features of welfare capitalism. It then goes on to examine three recent and prominent research projects in order to show how and why they fail to incorporate a convincing social theory of time.

Key Words: capitalism • class • inequality • radical politics • social policy

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