Key Themes in Social Policy
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Key Themes in Social Policy

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Key Themes in Social Policy

About this book

Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing.

With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry:



  • explains the origin of the word



  • discusses its relationship to the social sciences



  • describes its relevance to social policy and how widespread its use is



  • outlines some of the key thinkers and research on the topic and gives suggestions for further reading.

Making it easy to understand and use the most important ideas in the area, this is an essential companion for all students taking social policy courses.

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Index

  • active: citizen 106;
  • labour 3–4, 9, 30, 76;
    • welfare 3–4, 50, 76, 85
  • administration 7, 8, 14, 5, 18, 52, 127, 133, 144, 146, 155;
    • of welfare 14, 18, 133, 140; see also social administration
  • age 13, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26, 35, 40, 43, 46, 49, 61, 68, 82, 85, 89, 94, 112, 121, 122, 134, 135, 137, 140, 147, 155, 158
  • ageing: bodies 17;
    • population 42
  • agency 5, 6, 10, 12, 62, 91, 125, 129, 133, 159
  • altruism 6–8, 39
  • assistance 3, 4, 8–9, 80, 114;
    • payments 8–9, 13, 45;
    • personal 43;
    • schemes 45;
    • social 9, 45, 126, 127, 130, 133–4, 139
  • asylum seeker(s) 9–10, 97, 98, 136
  • autonomy i, v, 5, 6, 10–11, 17, 19, 23, 30, 40, 41, 43, 62, 70, 86, 87, 104, 106, 120, 124, 125, 142
  • basic needs 17, 104, 110, 142
  • benefit 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 26, 29, 36, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Active welfare
  10. Agency
  11. Altruism
  12. Assistance payments
  13. Asylum seeker
  14. Autonomy
  15. Basic income
  16. Benefit
  17. Beveridgian welfare
  18. Bismarckian model
  19. Black economy
  20. Body
  21. Bureaucracy
  22. Capabilities
  23. Capitalism
  24. Care/carer/caring
  25. Categorical benefits
  26. Child allowances
  27. Citizenship
  28. Class
  29. Claw-back
  30. Collectivism
  31. Commodification and decommodification
  32. Communitarian
  33. Community
  34. Comparative social policy
  35. Conditionality
  36. Convergence
  37. Corporatism
  38. Crisis of welfare
  39. Critical junctures
  40. Democracy
  41. Dependency
  42. Deserving/undeserving
  43. Disability
  44. Discretion
  45. Discrimination
  46. Diswelfares
  47. Division of labour
  48. Earnings
  49. Eligibility
  50. Employment
  51. Entitlement
  52. Environmentalism
  53. Equality
  54. Ethnicity
  55. Fabianism
  56. Families of nations
  57. Family
  58. Feminism
  59. Fiscal welfare
  60. Flexicurity
  61. Functionings
  62. Gender
  63. Globalization
  64. Global social policy
  65. Health
  66. Household
  67. Human capital
  68. Human trafficking
  69. Ideology
  70. Individualism
  71. Individualization
  72. Keynesian
  73. Labour
  74. Liberal
  75. Liberty
  76. Lone parents
  77. Male breadwinner
  78. Maternity
  79. Marxism
  80. Masculinities
  81. Means testing
  82. Migration
  83. Mixed economy of welfare
  84. Models of welfare
  85. Needs
  86. New social movements
  87. Occupational welfare
  88. Path dependency
  89. Patriarchy
  90. Poverty
  91. Power
  92. Power resources
  93. Public policy
  94. Quality of life
  95. Race
  96. Rationing
  97. Redistribution
  98. Resilience
  99. Risk
  100. Selectivity
  101. Sexuality
  102. Social administration
  103. Social assistance
  104. Social divisions
  105. Social exclusion
  106. Social insurance
  107. Social justice
  108. Social policy
  109. Stigma
  110. Stratification
  111. Sustainable development
  112. Theory
  113. Universality
  114. Wages
  115. Welfare regimes
  116. Welfare state
  117. Welfare/well-being
  118. Work–life balance
  119. Bibliography
  120. Index