Social Policy and Risk
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
076195886X
ISBN-13
9780761958864
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint
SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 16th, 1999
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
330 grams
Product Classification:
Social issues & processesSocial welfare & social servicesPolitical science & theory
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This text applies ideas of risk - as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault - to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo-liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics.
`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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