04821nam 2200637 450 991046568770332120200520144314.01-118-96596-5(CKB)3710000000736561(EBL)4567441(OCoLC)952427268(SSID)ssj0001682390(PQKBManifestationID)16507513(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682390(PQKBWorkID)15036816(PQKB)10328973(MiAaPQ)EBC4567441(Au-PeEL)EBL4567441(CaPaEBR)ebr11228910(CaONFJC)MIL935011(EXLCZ)99371000000073656120160716h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe student's companion to social policy /edited by Pete Alcock [and three others]Fifth edition.Chichester, England :Wiley-Blackwell,2016.©20161 online resource (599 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-118-96597-3 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.The Student's Companion to Social Policy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Concepts and Approaches; 1: What is Social Policy?; The Subject of Social Policy; The Development of Social Policy; The Welfare State and the Welfare Consensus; Theoretical Pluralism; The New Left; The New Right; New social movements; The new pragmatism; Public austerity; Emerging Issues: the Future of Social Policy; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 2: Researching Social Policy; Why We Need Research; Approaches, Methods and Designs; Evidence-based Policy and EvaluationEmerging IssuesGuide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 3: Social Needs, Social Problems, Social Welfare and Well-being; What is Social Welfare?; What are Social Needs?; What is a Social Problem?; Conclusion; Emerging Issues: from Needs to Well-being; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 4: Equality, Rights and Social Justice; Meanings and Definitions; Equality; Rights; Social justice; Equality, Rights and Justice as Ideology; Equality; Rights; Social justice; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions5: Human Rights and EqualityHistorical Context; Human rights; Equalities; Development of equality and human rights monitoring and enforcement bodies; Conceptualising Human Rights and Equalities; Human rights; Equalities; Human Rights and Equalities: Making Links; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 6: Efficiency, Equity and Choice; Introduction; Scarcity and Choice; Efficiency; Benefits of consumption; Costs of production; The efficient level of output; Efficiency and effectiveness; Efficiency versus Other Goals; Equity; ChoiceThe Means of Delivering Efficiency and ChoiceIssues for Public Service Delivery; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 7: Citizenship; Defining Citizenship: Three Common Elements; Rights, Responsibilities and Competing Visions of Citizenship; The Importance of Social Rights for Citizenship; Conditional and Constrained: Twenty-first-Century Social Citizenship; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 8: Changing Behaviour; Introduction; Changing Understandings of Behaviour; Experimenting with Behaviour Change; A Global Policy MovementChallenging Behavioural GovernmentConclusion; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; Part II: Key Perspectives; 9: Neo-Liberalism; The Neo-Liberal Challenge; From Classical Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism; Late-Twentieth-Century Neo-Liberalism; Neo-Liberalism and Welfare; Neo-Liberalism and Welfare: A Critique; Neo-Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 10: The Conservative Tradition; Conservatism; The Development of Conservative Ideas and Politics; Conservatism and Social ReformConservatism and Neo-LiberalismPublic welfareGreat BritainSocial policyStudy and teachingGreat BritainSocial policyElectronic books.Public welfareSocial policyStudy and teaching.306.0941Alcock Peter1951-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465687703321The student's companion to social policy2077603UNINA