<p>• Uses autobiography, showing the way the issue of care for others is threaded through the authors’ lived experience, and considering any light that may shine on the relevance of some accepted academic discourses – and vice versa;</p>
<p> • Focused around the cultural discourses that have shaped the value of caring for others rather than on the detail of social and political policies – and draws on popular culture as well as on intellectual and institutional history and data</p>
<p> • Interdisciplinary in nature, the book draws on the sociology of religion, the sociology of education, social mobility, gender studies, sociological theory, literary analysis, political sociology and economic and management theory.</p>