Welfare(PolityKeyConceptsintheSocialSciencesseries)

Welfare(PolityKeyConceptsintheSocialSciencesseries)

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作者: Mary Daly 著

出版社: PolityPress

出版时间: 2011-04

ISBN: 9780745644707

定价: 462.40

装帧: 精装

页数: 224页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: KeyConcepts

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

`Mary Daly's lucidly written book analyses the core ideological and philosophical debates about welfare and also explores "welfare in practice" - how welfare policies are actually delivered through the different mediums of the state, the market and the family. This is a truly excellent introduction to a complex and contested concept, and students will benefit enormously from reading it.'---Nick Ellison, University of Leeds`The welfare state is everywhere under attack. Academics respond with new accounts of how welfare is to be understood in a world of migration, recession, escalating inequality, make-work-pay and volatile families. This book provides an energetic review of an exciting and uncertain world.'---Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of KentWelfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book takes a fresh look at the continuing relevance of welfare in the context of public policy, recent scholarly developments and changes in popular attitudes and behaviour.The book connects theory and practice. Tracing the concept's background in economics, political science and social policy, the book juxtaposes welfare with newer approaches, such as subjective well-being, capabilities, care, social exclusion and social capital. The links between welfare and political ideas are also elaborated. The welfare state, as it developed historically in Europe and as it is changing in different countries, is given an important place in the analysis. Drawing on a range of empirical work, the book in its final part considers how individuals and groups seek to attain welfare and how this shapes people's decisions and actions in their everyday lives.Written in a lively style, this book provides students of sociology, social policy and political science with a valuable point of access to a range of debates and thinking in the field of welfare and related concepts. Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast
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`Mary Daly's lucidly written book analyses the core ideological and philosophical debates about welfare and also explores "welfare in practice" - how welfare policies are actually delivered through the different mediums of the state, the market and the family. This is a truly excellent introduction to a complex and contested concept, and students will benefit enormously from reading it.'---Nick Ellison, University of Leeds`The welfare state is everywhere under attack. Academics respond with new accounts of how welfare is to be understood in a world of migration, recession, escalating inequality, make-work-pay and volatile families. This book provides an energetic review of an exciting and uncertain world.'---Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of KentWelfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book takes a fresh look at the continuing relevance of welfare in the context of public policy, recent scholarly developments and changes in popular attitudes and behaviour.The book connects theory and practice. Tracing the concept's background in economics, political science and social policy, the book juxtaposes welfare with newer approaches, such as subjective well-being, capabilities, care, social exclusion and social capital. The links between welfare and political ideas are also elaborated. The welfare state, as it developed historically in Europe and as it is changing in different countries, is given an important place in the analysis. Drawing on a range of empirical work, the book in its final part considers how individuals and groups seek to attain welfare and how this shapes people's decisions and actions in their everyday lives.Written in a lively style, this book provides students of sociology, social policy and political science with a valuable point of access to a range of debates and thinking in the field of welfare and related concepts.
作者简介:
Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast

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