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.
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
