Illustrating how social research can inform social policy debates, this text covers a wide variety of social policy and welfare issues. It focuses mainly on social policy in the United Kingdom, but frequent comparisons are drawn with developments elsewhere in the European Union and United States.
Now fully updated and expanded, the new second edition of this well established textbook will remain a key book for students of Social Policy and other Sociology related disciplines. The 22 chapters cover a wide variety of social policy and welfare issues
1. SOCIAL POLICY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEMS; 2. The Politics of Welfare; 3. WELFARE, IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY; 4. Welfare, Media and Culture; 5. Social Needs and Patterns of Inequality and Difference; 6. Work and Welfare; 7. The Family; 8. Welfare, Identity and the Life Course; 9. WHITE COATS AND GREY SUITS: PROFESSIONS AND BUREAUCRACY; 10. Economics and Public Expenditure Decision Making; 11. The Role of the Voluntary and Non-Governmental Sector; 12. CASH TRANSFERS; 13. Education and Training; 14. Health and Health Policy; 15. Social Care; 16. The Care and Protection of Children; 17. Housing and Housing Policy; 18. Crime, Justice and Punishment; 19. The Environment and Green Social Policy; 20. Comparative Social Policy and the European Union; 21. THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL POLICY; 22. New Thinking in Social Welfare
Now fully updated and expanded, the new second edition of this well established textbook will remain a key book for students of Social Policy and other Sociology related disciplines. The 22 chapters cover a wide variety of social policy and welfare issues
1. SOCIAL POLICY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEMS; 2. The Politics of Welfare; 3. WELFARE, IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY; 4. Welfare, Media and Culture; 5. Social Needs and Patterns of Inequality and Difference; 6. Work and Welfare; 7. The Family; 8. Welfare, Identity and the Life Course; 9. WHITE COATS AND GREY SUITS: PROFESSIONS AND BUREAUCRACY; 10. Economics and Public Expenditure Decision Making; 11. The Role of the Voluntary and Non-Governmental Sector; 12. CASH TRANSFERS; 13. Education and Training; 14. Health and Health Policy; 15. Social Care; 16. The Care and Protection of Children; 17. Housing and Housing Policy; 18. Crime, Justice and Punishment; 19. The Environment and Green Social Policy; 20. Comparative Social Policy and the European Union; 21. THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL POLICY; 22. New Thinking in Social Welfare