Sociality - Social Rights and Human Welfare

This book develops a very particular concept of sociality: a holistic way of understanding how human beings have come to care about and collectively provide for their welfare as a species and to recognise each other's needs in terms of shared social rights.

List of contents

1.Human Sociality. Part I - Established Theories of Social Rights. 2.The Social Rights of Citizenship. 3.Human Need and Human Rights. 4.Social Rights and Social Development. 5.Ethics, Ideologies and Sociality. 6.Critiques of Social Rights. Part II - Social Rights in Theory. 7.Rights to Human Services. 8.Rights to Livelihood. 9.Social Rights in Global Context. 10.Rights of Redress. Conclusion.

About the author

Hartley Dean is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He had for 12 years been a welfare rights worker in Brixton, South London, before moving on to a 40-year academic career researching, teaching and writing about social justice issues.

Summary

This book develops a very particular concept of sociality: a holistic way of understanding how human beings have come to care about and collectively provide for their welfare as a species and to recognise each other’s needs in terms of shared social rights.

Product details

• Authors: Hartley Dean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032587912
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258791-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, social rights;human welfare;hartley dean