Welfare, Ideology and Need: Developing Perspectives on the Welfare State by Martin Hewitt
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Welfare, Ideology and Need
Summary
This work explores the concept of the Welfare State and the various perspectives that different political and sociological schools of thought have put upon it. The conclusion attempts to draw a realistic formula for today's society and its needs.
Welfare, Ideology and Need Summary
Table of Contents
Characterizing welfare ideology; conceptions of ideology. Part 1 Welfare State and ideology: social administration and the welfare consensus; welfare ideology and the New Right; Thatcherism and the welfare consensus. Part 2 Marxist theories of ideology and the Welfare State: ideology, political economy and the Welfare State; critical theory and welfare ideology; disorganized capitalism and the problems of need and welfare. Part 3 Welfare ideology and discourse: structural Marxism, ideology and the Welfare State; welfare, power and ideology - Foucault's account of welfare and ideology; problems of human need - the real and ideological bases of welfare; policy, ideology and reason.
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GOR004257577
9780745010779
0745010776
Welfare, Ideology and Need: Developing Perspectives on the Welfare State by Martin Hewitt
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
19920401
450
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