| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Active welfare -- Agency -- Altruism -- Assistance payments -- Asylum seeker -- Autonomy -- Basic income -- Benefit -- Beveridgian welfare -- Bismarckian model -- Black economy -- Body -- Bureaucracy -- Capabilities -- Capitalism -- Care/carer/caring -- Categorical benefits -- Child allowances -- Citizenship -- Class -- Claw-back -- Collectivism -- Commodification and decommodification -- Communitarian -- Community -- Comparative social policy -- Conditionality -- Convergence -- Corporatism -- Crisis of welfare -- Critical junctures -- Democracy -- Dependency -- Deserving/undeserving -- Disability -- Discretion -- Discrimination -- Diswelfares -- Division of labour -- Earnings -- Eligibility -- Employment -- Entitlement -- Environmentalism -- Equality -- Ethnicity -- Fabianism -- Families of nations -- Family -- Feminism -- Fiscal welfare -- Flexicurity -- Functionings -- Gender -- Globalization -- Global social policy -- Health -- Household -- Human capital -- Human trafficking -- Ideology -- Individualism -- Individualization -- Keynesian -- Labour -- Liberal -- Liberty -- Lone parents -- Male breadwinner -- Maternity -- Marxism -- Masculinities -- Means testing -- Migration -- Mixed economy of welfare -- Models of welfare -- Needs -- New social movements -- Occupational welfare -- Path dependency -- Patriarchy -- Poverty -- Power -- Power resources -- Public policy -- Quality of life -- Race -- Rationing -- Redistribution -- Resilience -- Risk -- Selectivity -- Sexuality -- Social administration -- Social assistance -- Social divisions -- Social exclusion -- Social insurance -- Social justice -- Social policy -- Stigma -- Stratification -- Sustainable development -- Theory -- Universality -- Wages -- Welfare regimes -- Welfare state -- Welfare/well-being -- Work-life balance |
| Summary |
"Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry explains the origin of the word, discusses its relationship to the social sciences describes its relevance to social policy and how widespread its use is, and outlines some of the key thinkers and research on the topic and gives suggestions for further reading. Making it easy to understand and use the most important ideas in the area, this is an essential companion for all students taking social policy courses."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social policy.
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Public Policy
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public policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Social policy
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Sozialpolitik
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Socialpolitik.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012033397 |
| ISBN |
9781135071387 |
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1135071381 |
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9780415520966 |
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0415520967 |
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9780203594186 |
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0203594185 |
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