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Rethinking social policy / edited by Gail Lewis, Sharon Gewirtz and John Clarke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2000.Description: x, 358p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780761967552 (pbk.) :
  • 9780761967545 (hbk.) :
  • 0761967540
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.61 LEW
LOC classification:
  • HN17.5 .R4 2000
Contents:
Introduction: Expanding the Social Policy Imaginary--1. Gender and the analysis of social policy--2. Gender and welfare regimes--3. The social relations of care--4. Foucault and the study of social policy--5. Constituting Welfare subjects through poverty and sexuality--6. Constructing gendered and racialized identities: Young Men, Masculinities and educational policy--7. Children as welfare subjects in restructured social policy--8. Social policy and the body--9. Social policy and the emotions--10. Class and social policy--11. From the KWNS to the SWPR--12. New approaches to comparative social policy: the changing face of central and eastern european welfare--13. A world of difference? Globalization and the study of social policy--14. Decriminalizing criminology--15. Crime control,social policy and liberalism--16. Rethinking violence, rethinking social policy?--17. Discursive Histories, the pusuit of multiculturalism and social policy--18. The demise of professional self-regulation: a moment to mourn?--19. Exchange and the metaphor of exchange:Economic cultures in social care--20. Social Justice, new labour and school reform--21. Redefining work and welfare in europe: New perspectives on work, welfare and time--22. Principles of recognition and respect in welfare.
Summary: This text is a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the complex mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy. Its contributors reflect upon new social and theoretical movements for welfare and social policy studies.
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Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Expanding the Social Policy Imaginary--1. Gender and the analysis of social policy--2. Gender and welfare regimes--3. The social relations of care--4. Foucault and the study of social policy--5. Constituting Welfare subjects through poverty and sexuality--6. Constructing gendered and racialized identities: Young Men, Masculinities and educational policy--7. Children as welfare subjects in restructured social policy--8. Social policy and the body--9. Social policy and the emotions--10. Class and social policy--11. From the KWNS to the SWPR--12. New approaches to comparative social policy: the changing face of central and eastern european welfare--13. A world of difference? Globalization and the study of social policy--14. Decriminalizing criminology--15. Crime control,social policy and liberalism--16. Rethinking violence, rethinking social policy?--17. Discursive Histories, the pusuit of multiculturalism and social policy--18. The demise of professional self-regulation: a moment to mourn?--19. Exchange and the metaphor of exchange:Economic cultures in social care--20. Social Justice, new labour and school reform--21. Redefining work and welfare in europe: New perspectives on work, welfare and time--22. Principles of recognition and respect in welfare.

This text is a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the complex mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy. Its contributors reflect upon new social and theoretical movements for welfare and social policy studies.

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