Grounding Security : Family, Insurance and the State

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826507503321
• Autore: Weisbrod Carol
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton, : Taylor and Francis, 2017
• ISBN: 1-138-61983-3; 0-8335-8747-1; 1-351-15704-3; 1-351-15702-7; 1-281-09678-4; 9786611096786; 0-7546-8049-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Collana: Law, justice, and power
• Disciplina: 362
• Soggetti: Social security - Economic aspects; Social security - Psychological aspects; Social security - Political aspects; Families; Insurance; State, The; Social security - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pillars of security -- Security through the family -- Security through insurance -- Security through the state -- Security and individualism.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial support. State policies on security rest on perceptions of two other institutions, the family and insurance, both of which are subject to change. At one time the extended family was seen as a major security-providing institution, but the contemporary nuclear family is more fragile. The concept of insurance originally ; entailed ideas of community and mutual aid; however, the institution has developed, in its modern private form, as a profit-driven entity. This book addresses various uses of state power in providing security for individuals, and outlines different ways in which this can be done."--Provided by publisher.