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PhD Sociology University of Essex
Masters Sociology University of Essex
Bachelors Sociology University of Essex

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According to Wikipedia, John William Offer is a British sociologist who serves as Professor of Social Theory and Policy at Ulster University. His most recent book is Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism: Selected Writings of Robert Pinker, jointly edited by John Offer and Robert Pinker, published by Policy Press in 2017. Beginning in October, 2021 he will hold a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for the project 'Spencer's Sociology: A Study in Retrieval and Revival'.

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John Offer's Published Works

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Mind and Society (1988) (941)
Herbert Spencer and Social Theory (2010) (23)
Idealist thought, social policy and the rediscovery of informal care. (1999) (22)
Political Writings: The Proper Sphere of Government (1993) (14)
Social Workers, the Community and Social Interaction: Intervention and the Sociology of Welfare (1999) (12)
An Intellectual History of British Social Policy: Idealism Versus Non-idealism (2006) (12)
From ‘natural selection’ to ‘survival of the fittest’: On the significance of Spencer’s refashioning of Darwin in the 1860s (2014) (12)
Spencer's Future of Welfare: A Vision Eclipsed (1999) (12)
Social Change and Selectionist Thought: On Spencer, Darwin and Runciman (2010) (11)
Free Agent or ‘Conscious Automaton’? Contrasting Interpretations of the Individual in Spencer's Writing on Social and Moral Life (2003) (10)
‘Virtue’, ‘Citizen Character’ and ‘Social Environment’: Social Theory and Agency in Social Policy since 1830 (2006) (9)
Spencer's Sociology of Welfare (1983) (9)
Informal Welfare: A Sociological Study of Care in Northern Ireland (1987) (8)
The Coming Slavery (8)
Herbert Spencer : critical assessments (2000) (8)
The New Toryism (8)
Herbert Spencer, Sociological Theory, and the Professions (2019) (8)
Idealism Versus Non-Idealism: New Light on Social Policy and Voluntary Action in Britain Since 1880 (2003) (7)
Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments (4 Vols) (2000) (7)
Bringing it ‘Home’? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology (2016) (5)
Sociological Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Reply to Steve Fuller (1996) (5)
Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists (2000) (5)
Herbert Spencer: Political Writings (1994) (5)
Lay theories and health education (1989) (5)
An examination of Spencer's sociology of music and its impact on music historiography in Britain (1983) (4)
Dead Theorists and Older People: Spencer, Idealist Social Thought and Divergent Prescriptions For Care (2004) (4)
Book Review: Interpreting Spencer (1980) (4)
A new reading of Spencer on ‘society’, ‘organicism’ and ‘spontaneous order’ (2015) (4)
The Great Political Superstition (4)
A Philosophy of Charity and the Debates over the English and Irish Poor Laws in the 1830s (2017) (3)
Social Darwinism and English Thought, G Jones, and Darwinian Impacts, D Oldroyd (1981) (3)
On the need for a sociology of poverty: comments on the state of research on poverty in the United Kingdom (1985) (3)
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, Mark Francis, and The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer, Michael W. Taylor (2008) (3)
Political Writings: The Sins of Legislators (1993) (3)
An Intellectual History of British Social Policy (2006) (3)
Social Solidarity and Herbert Spencer: Not the Oxymoron That Might Be Assumed (2019) (3)
Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism: Selected Writings of Robert Pinker (2017) (2)
Informal Welfare, Social Work and the Sociology of Welfare (1984) (2)
The informal system of social welfare (1979) (2)
Political Writings: Frontmatter (1993) (2)
‘Internalist’ Ethics, Communitarianism and T. H. Green: A Reply to Dimova-Cookson (2007) (2)
On sociological studies of interaction between social workers and clients and why they matter (1999) (2)
The sociology of welfare: where social work fits in (1991) (2)
Christian Political Economics, Richard Whately and Irish Poor Law Theory (2014) (2)
The Poor Law Commission of 1905-09: a view from a century on (2009) (1)
“DESERT”, “NEED”, THE SOCIAL THEORY OF THE POOR LAW RE‐PORT OF 1834, AND JOHN STUART MILL. (1989) (1)
The Year Book of Social Policy in Britain, 1978, . (1980) (1)
Evolution and Mind (2010) (1)
Social Darwinism, Peter Dickens (2002) (1)
SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF WELFARE (1990) (1)
Dissonance Over Harmony: A Spencer Oddity (1983) (1)
‘A Spencer trio recalled: Social Statics, First Principles and The Man Versus the State’ (1985) (1)
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, and: The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer (review) (2008) (1)
Informal welfare in a small town in Northern Ireland (1985) (1)
Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) (2021) (0)
The Social Organism (2010) (0)
Tonnies and Spencer: an assessment of Tonnies as a critic of Spencer, and a view of their dual relevance to aspects of contemporary sociological research on welfare (2000) (0)
On Social Policy Studies (2017) (0)
Towards a New Sociology of Social Work, Roger Sibeon (1993) (0)
The Idea of Welfare, R A Pinker (1980) (0)
Rethinking Welfare, B Jordan, (1987) (0)
Book Reviews (1986) (0)
Approaches to Welfare, edited by P Bean and S Macpherson (1984) (0)
Social theory and voluntary action in Britain since 1880 (2006) (0)
Social policy and informal welfare (1985) (0)
‘An uncommon confidence in miracles: informal welfare and a need for relevant research’ (1986) (0)
Men versusThe State, Michael Taylor (1993) (0)
Introduction to the reissue of The Idea of Welfare by Robert Pinker (2019) (0)
Social Administration, Poverty and Inequality (with A P Williamson) (1987) (0)
Informal welfare, voluntary action and community care (1995) (0)
The Social and Political Thought of Herbert Spencer, D Wiltshire (1979) (0)
Book Review: W.G. Runciman, Very Different, But Much the Same: The Evolution of English Society Since 1714 (2016) (0)
Herbert Spencer: A General Introduction (2000) (0)
Sociology, Ethics and Well-Being (2010) (0)
Early Spencer: Influences and Ideas (2010) (0)
General Introduction: Robert Pinker on rethinking approaches to welfare (2017) (0)
Spencer, private beneficence and informal welfare: a centennial re-evaluation (1996) (0)
‘Virtue’ and the poor law in Britain and Ireland in the 1830s (2006) (0)
Informal welfare and Glengow (1988) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
Social Work in an Enterprise Society, Robert Pinker (1991) (0)
Opera and Other Arts (1973) (0)
Spencer and a liberal road to welfare: the eclipse of a vision (2006) (0)
On Social Care, Communities and the Conditions for Well-being (2017) (0)
Militant and Industrial Social Types (2010) (0)
Political Writings: Editor's note (1993) (0)
Appendix: Spencer's article of 1836 on the Poor Law (1993) (0)
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (2021) (0)
Epilogue: from poor law to Labour’s ‘new idealism’ (2006) (0)
The case of older people: social thought and divergent prescriptions for care (2006) (0)
Middle Spencer: Towards a Tapestry of the World (2010) (0)
Social policy and idealist versus non-idealist thought: the fundamental schism (2006) (0)
Later Spencer: Crafting the Principles of Sociology, and Losing Hold (2010) (0)
Social Change, A D Smith (1978) (0)
The Northern Counties Hotel in Portrush (1995) (0)
The New Politics of Welfare: An Agenda for the 1990s, Michael McCarthy (ed.) (1991) (0)
Bernard and Helen Bosanquet (2007) (0)
Free agent or ‘conscious automaton’? The individual in Spencer’s social theory (2006) (0)
The State of Welfare, edited by John Hills, (1992) (0)
Book Reviews: Social Darwinism (2002) (0)
David G. Green, Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare without Politics, IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London, 1993, ix + 166 pp., paper £7.95. (1994) (0)
Man's evolution to a just and beneficent being (2007) (0)
Political Writings: Preface (1993) (0)
Aspects of Informal Caring: Some Results from a Study of a Small Town in Northern Ireland (1988) (0)
On Welfare Pluralism (2017) (0)
Robert Pinker, the Idea of Welfare and the Study of Social Policy: On Unitarism and Pluralism (2012) (0)
Social work and the informal system of social welfare (1978) (0)
Robert Pinker on rethinking approaches to welfare (2017) (0)
Principal events in Spencer's life (1994) (0)
Reinventing Civil Society, David Green. (1994) (0)
Introductions to Parts 1-9 (2000) (0)
On welfare pluralism, social policy and the contribution of sociology: Revisiting Robert Pinker (2023) (0)
Retrospective Reviews (1985) (0)
Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation, J H Turner (1986) (0)

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