1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450960303321

Autore

Daniels Ronald J (Ronald Joel), <1959-, >

Titolo

Rethinking the welfare state : the prospects for government by voucher / / Ronald J. Daniels and Michael J. Trebilcock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-30510-9

9786610224074

1-280-22407-X

0-203-44807-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TrebilcockM. J

Disciplina

361.6/1

Soggetti

Social policy

Welfare state

Public welfare

Subsidies

Electronic books.

Canada Social policy

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The case for vouchers; 3 Food stamps; 4 Low-income housing; 5 Legal aid; 6 Health care; 7 Early childhood education; 8 Primary and secondary education; 9 Post-secondary education; 10 Labour market training; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy and explores the effectiveness of the voucher system as a solution to problematic areas in the welfare programme.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784403303321

Autore

Rapley Mark

Titolo

The social construction of intellectual disability / / Mark Rapley [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14408-6

1-280-54015-X

0-511-21417-0

0-511-21596-7

0-511-21059-0

0-511-48988-9

0-511-31494-9

0-511-21236-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

362.2/0422

Soggetti

People with mental disabilities

Social interaction

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the cover illustration; A note on transcription notation; Introduction; 1 A discursive psychological approach; 2 Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; 3 The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be smart strategy; 4 Matters of identity; 5 Talk to dogs, infants and...; 6 A deviant case...; 7 Some tentative conclusions; Appendix 1 Current definitions of mental retardation/intellectual disability

Appendix 2 Frequently asked questions about mental retardation and the AAMR definitionReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, little different from diabetes, paralysis or chronic



illness. This study, the first book-length application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability, shows that what we usually understand as being an individual problem is actually an interactional, or social, product. Through a range of case studies, which draw upon ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship, the book shows how persons categorized as 'intellectually disabled' are produced, as such, in and through their moment-by-moment interaction with care staff and other professionals. Mark Rapley extends and reformulates current work in disability studies and offers a reconceptualisation of intellectual disability as both a professionally ascribed diagnostic category and an accomplished  - and contested - social identity. Importantly, the book is grounded in data drawn from naturally-occurring, rather than professionally orchestrated, social interaction.