Social Policy - Theories, Concepts and Issues

Klappentext The revised and updated Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook provides students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical debates surrounding the discipline. New areas of consideration cover citizenship, post-structuralism, the politics of food and globalization.Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are used to illustrate conceptual and theoretical material, making it the ideal core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences. Zusammenfassung Offers coverage of the key theories! concepts and issues in social policy. This text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical debates surrounding the discipline. Inhaltsverzeichnis THEORETICAL APPROACHES Neo-Liberalism and Social Policy Towards a `New¿ Social Democracy Marxism and Welfarism Feminist Critiques of Social Policy Racism and Social Policy CONCEPTUAL DEBATES IN SOCIAL POLICY Distributive Justice and Social Policy Citizenship, Social Solidarity and Social Policy Cultural Turns, Post-Structuralism and Social Policy Living in a Material World Postmodernism and Social Policy SOME CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES Children, Social Policy and the State The Dichotomy of Care and Control `Demographic Time Bomb¿, or `Apocalyptic Demography¿ The Great Pensions Debate Social Policy and the Politics of Food Wage Supplementation, Social Policy and the State From then Old Poor Law to New Labour New Labour and the Management of Welfare Globalization and Social Policy

Product details

• Authors: Michael (EDT)/ Pratt Lavalette, Michael Pratt Lavalette
• Assisted by: Michael Lavalette (Editor), Lavalette Michael (Editor), Alan Pratt (Editor), Pratt Alan (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2005
• EAN: 9781412901703
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-0170-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues