Social Policy
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The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts, and issues in social policy. This lively and readable text has been designed to provide the essential tools to understand the main theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.
The book is organized into three sections:
Section One offers a detailed but accessible critique of major theoretical approaches such as neo-liberalism, Marxism, feminism and racism;
Section Two explores conceptual debates such as distributive justice and postmodernism;
Section Three engages with contemporary social policy issues such as children, pensions and the role of New Labor;
The new edition of also features newly commissioned chapters to reflect recent developments and current debates within social policy. New areas of consideration include citizenship; post-structuralism; the politics of food; and globalization.
Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are skillfully used to illustrate conceptual and theoretical material. Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues is a core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences
Contents
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
Description
The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts, and issues in social policy. This lively and readable text has been designed to provide the essential tools to understand the main theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.
The book is organized into three sections:
Section One offers a detailed but accessible critique of major theoretical approaches such as neo-liberalism, Marxism, feminism and racism;
Section Two explores conceptual debates such as distributive justice and postmodernism;
Section Three engages with contemporary social policy issues such as children, pensions and the role of New Labor;
The new edition of also features newly commissioned chapters to reflect recent developments and current debates within social policy. New areas of consideration include citizenship; post-structuralism; the politics of food; and globalization.
Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are skillfully used to illustrate conceptual and theoretical material. Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues is a core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences
Contents
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
December 2005 | 336 pages | Sage UK
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The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts, and issues in social policy. This lively and readable text has been designed to provide the essential tools to understand the main theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.
The book is organized into three sections:
Section One offers a detailed but accessible critique of major theoretical approaches such as neo-liberalism, Marxism, feminism and racism;
Section Two explores conceptual debates such as distributive justice and postmodernism;
Section Three engages with contemporary social policy issues such as children, pensions and the role of New Labor;
The new edition of also features newly commissioned chapters to reflect recent developments and current debates within social policy. New areas of consideration include citizenship; post-structuralism; the politics of food; and globalization.
Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are skillfully used to illustrate conceptual and theoretical material. Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues is a core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences
Table Of Contents:
- 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