Towards a Comparative Sociology of Residence and Disablement - Britain and Sweden in Interventionist Welfare Regime Perspective

Abstract

In the first part of this paper, I developed the interventionist model of disability and, from this, interventionist regime theory. In this part of the paper, my empirical application of these conceptual models will enable me to refute the ?total change? and ?total statis? discourses in British housing and community care research, and the latent convergence that I have shown to predominate in divergent ?welfare regime? theorizing. I will achieve this through a ?middle-range? theorization that demonstrates how British housing and community care policies are infused with elements of both statis and flux, and how British and Swedish housing policies for disabled people are disjunctive constructs particular to these societies. In doing so, I will not enter into intricate details about these housing policies. Rather, I take the broad principles (and aims) that underpin housing policies as the starting points from which I abstract out towards a middle-range theorization.