Description: Social Policy and Risk Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Ian R Culpitt Format: Paperback Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc ISBN-13: 9780761958864, 978-0761958864 Synopsis `As the study of social policy comes increasingly to address issues of theorising welfare in a period of fundamental social change, Culpitt?s book is especially welcome in helping to update the reader in many of the debates and explorations surrounding social change, in particular those instigated by Foucault some two decades ago - his work on "governmentality" is central to Culpitt?s book - and by Beck on risk more recently. The book also serves as a useful introduction to other key thinkers influencing social theory today whose work also addresses issues central to social policy, such as Giddens, Honneth and Turner? - Martin Hewitt, University of Hertfordshire This book examines the notion of risk in relation to social policy. It takes ideas about risk (as expressed by sociologists such as Ulrich Beck in Risk Society), and applies them to recent changes in welfare. The author shows neo-liberals have used various aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency, and how various rhetoric?s of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics. Social Policy and Risk makes a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary welfare politics.
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Book Title: Social Policy and Risk
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Social Policy and Risk
Language: English
Publisher: SAGE Publications INC International Concepts
Item Height: 234 mm
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 330 g
Subject Area: Social Work
Author: Ian R Culpitt
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
