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1. Social Policy, 1830-1914: Individualism, collectivism and the origins of the welfare state (1978) 2. The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (1952) 3. Labour and the Poor in England and Wales 1849-1851: The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondents in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts. Volume I -- Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire (1983) 4. Labour and the Poor in England and Wales 1849-1851: The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondents in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts. Volume II -- Northumberland and Durham, Staffordshire, The Midlands (1983) 5. Labour and the Poor in England and Wales 1849-1851: The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondents in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts. Volume III -- South Wales, North Wales (1983) 6. A History of English Philanthropy: From the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Taking of the First Census (1905) 7. The British National Health Service: State Intervention in the Medical Marketplace, 1911-1948 (1991) 8. Octavia Hill: Early Ideals 9. The History of the Rochdale Pioneers (1893) 10. Working-Class Self-Help in Nineteenth-Century England: Responses to industrialization (1995) 11. Churchmen and the Condition of England, 1832-1885: A study in the development of social ideas and practice from the Old Regime to the Modern State (1973) 12. A History of the English Poor Law: Volume I (1854) 13. A History of the English Poor Law: Volume II (1854) 14. A History of the English Poor Law: Volume III (1854) 15. A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor: Volume I (1805) 16. A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor: Volume II (1805) 17. Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England (1992) 18. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 1 (1981) 19. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 2 (1981) 20. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 3 (1981) 21. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 4 (1981) 22. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 5 (1981) 23. Morning Chronicle Survey: The Metropolitan Districts Volume 6 (1981) 24. From Pauperism to Poverty (1981) 25. The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1986)

Many theorists have regarded genealogy as an important technique for social criticism. But it has been unclear how genealogy can go beyond the accomplishments of other, more mundane, critical methods. I propose a new approach to understanding the critical potential of history. I argue that theorists have been misled by the assumption that if a claim is deserving of criticism, it is because the claim is false. Turning to the criticism of concepts rather than criticism of claims, I expand on the distinction between "descriptive semantics" and "foundational semantics" to show that genealogy can be uniquely qualified to explore the foundations of concepts, and hence to criticize concepts that are problematic in nonobvious ways.

The article is devoted to the results of the development of a sociological test "GSR-5", designed to measure general attitudes towards the welfare state. A theoretical analysis of the measurement of attitudes towards the welfare state in modern Western societies has been carried out. It is concluded that the entire set of relevant studies can be divided into two categories - a priori (transition from the concept to existing measurements) and a posteriori (focusing on the existing experience of empirical research). At the same time, insufficient attention was revealed to general attitudes towards the state (as a background or stereotypical attitude). The sociological test is proposed based on five indicators in relation to the state: assessment of effectiveness, assessment of the future, assessment of living conditions, assessment of historical achievements and assessment of current events. For the purpose of further empirical validation, the sociological test was included in four large-scale cross-sectional studies using different methods (CAWI, F2F, self-completion, CATI). Based on the obtained results, the factor, criterion and construct validity of the test was checked. The ideal types approach was used to categorize respondents' attitudes based on their individual responses. As a result, 5 social groups were identified in terms of their attitude to their own state: expressively negative, moderately negative, intermediate, moderately positive and expressively positive. In general, based on the analysis, a conclusion was made about the possibility of using the sociological test "GSR-5" in sociological research.

With long-lasting debates, corporate social responsibility concept was from the beginning a high-interest subject to all of the stakeholders of the companies: shareholders, public opinion, employees and governments. Based on studies which demonstrates the socially responsible companies have major financial and image-related benefits, we started researching the roots of the concept "corporate social responsibility". By using qualitative method, hermeneutic perspective, we chose the comprehensive approach of CSR developed by Goodpaster et al. (2005). We analyzed four sides out of five of the concept (economics contributions of companies to society, contextual changing of companies' development and existence environment, Conceptual evolution and dimentions of CSR, perspective of theories in close connection with CSR) and we proposed a definition of what we belive is CSR. Analyzing the pros and cons of accepting the CSR model as stated nowadays, we concluded as follows: Without neglecting the implicit social responsibility of companies towards others (like human beings) – by means of taxes and social charges imposed by law, and without fully accepting the extreme opinion that presents corporations as entities that indirectly hold all the communities' political, social and economic power, companies should strictly follow their economic goal, which implicitly fulfils all the additional requirements imposed to companies by some stakeholders.