Social policy : theories, concepts and issues / edited by Michael Lavalette and Alan Pratt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavalette, Michael.

Pratt, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 325 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Accessible and comprehensive, this introduction to social policy will help students to develop a full and critical understanding of the discipline. Suitable for students, academics and professionals in social policy and social welfare.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chaoter 1 - Introduction; Part I: Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 2 - Neo-liberalism and Social Policy; Chapter 3 - Towards a 'New' Social Democracy; Chapter 4 - Marxism and Welfarism; Chapter 5 - Feminist Critiques of Social Policy; Chapter 6 - Racism and Social Policy; Part II: Conceptual Debates in Social Policy; Chapter 7 - Distributive Justice and Social Policy; Chapter 8 - Citizenship, Social Solidarity and Social Policy; Chapter 9 - Cultural Turns, Post-structuralism and Social Policy

Chapter 10 - Living in a Meterial World Postmodernism and Social PolicyPart III: Some Contemporary Social Policy Issues; Chapter 11 - Children, Social Policy and the State: The Dichotomy of Care and Control; Chapter 12 - 'Demographic Time Bomb', or 'Apocalyptic Demography': The Great Pensions Debate; Chapter 13 - Social Policy and the Politics of Food; Chapter 14 - Wage Supplementation Social Policy and the State: From the Old Poor Law to New Labour; Chapter 15 - New Labour and the Management of Welfare; Chapter 16 - Globalisation and Social Policy; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-314) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781446236673

1446236676

9781446280386

1446280381

9781283859158

1283859157

9781446203576

1446203573

OCLC:

821185391