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.
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Welfare, Ideology and Need: Developing Perspectives on the Welfare State by Martin Hewitt
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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
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