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Author Alcock, Pete

Title The Student's Companion to Social Policy
Edition 4th ed
Published Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (494 pages)
Contents The Student's Companion to Social Policy, Fourth Edition; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Concepts and Approaches; 1: The Subject of Social Policy; 2: Approaches and Methods; 3: Social Needs, Social Problems, and Social Welfare and Well-being; 4: Equality, Rights, and Social Justice; 5: Equalities and Human Rights; 6: Efficiency, Equity, and Choice; 7: Altruism, Reciprocity, and Obligation; PART II: Key Perspectives; 8: Neo-liberalism; 9: The Conservative Tradition; 10: Social Democracy; 11: Socialist Perspectives; 12: Feminist Perspectives
13: Green Perspectives14: Postmodernist Perspectives; PART III: Historical Context; 15: History and Social Policy; 16: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings; 17: The Liberal Era and the Growth of State Welfare; 18: The Post-war Welfare State; 19: Crisis, Retrenchment, and the Impact of Neo-liberalism (1976-1997); 20: Modernization and the Third Way; PART IV: Contemporary Context; 21: Demography; 22: Economic Policy and Social Policy; 23: Religion; 24: Family Policy; 25: Divisions and Difference; 26: Poverty and Social Exclusion; 27: The Distribution of Welfare; 28: The Policy Process
29: Evaluation and Evidence-based Social PolicyPART V: Welfare Production and Provision; 30: State Welfare; 31: Commercial Welfare; 32: Occupational Welfare; 33: Voluntary Welfare; 34: Informal Welfare; 35: Paying for Welfare; 36: Taxation and Welfare; 37: Citizenship and Access to Welfare; PART VI: Welfare Governance; 38: Managing and Delivering Welfare; 39: Accountability for Welfare; 40: Welfare Users and Social Policy; 41: Local and Regional Government and Governance; 42: Social Policy and Devolution; 43: Social Policy and the European Union; 44: International Organizations
PART VII: Welfare Services45: Income Maintenance and Social Security; 46: Employment; 47: Health Care; 48: Education in Schools; 49: Lifelong Learning and Training; 50: Housing; 51: Social Care; 52: Criminal Justice; PART VIII: Services for Particular Groups; 53: 'Race' and Social Welfare; 54: Children; 55: Young People; 56: Older People; 57: Disability; 58: Migrants and Asylum Seekers; PART IX: International Issues; 59: Comparative Analysis; 60: Social Policy in Europe; 61: Social Policy in Liberal Market Societies; 62: Social Policy in East Asian Societies
63: Social Policy in Middle Eastern Societies64: Social Policy in Developing Societies; Appendix: The Social Policy Association (SPA); Index
Summary The fourth edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy maintains the text's inimitable and best-selling approach. Written by a wide range of experts in the field, it has been extensively updated and revised to take account of recent developments and debates and changing political and economic configurations.€ The fourth edition has been extensively revised and is again written by experts at the forefront of the disciplineIncludes an additional five chapter section on the key themes and issues in the development of social policy in the UK since the nineteenth centuryNew to this edi
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Subject Public welfare -- Great Britain
Social policy -- Study and teaching
Public welfare
Social policy
Social policy -- Study and teaching
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author May, Margaret
Wright, Sharon
ISBN 9781119960805
1119960800