Social Policy

The text provides a general introduction to social policy but also engages well in the theoretical aspects. This edition also provides a useful update to the earlier versions of the text. It to be recommended reading on the course because students in this module recap a number of key theoretical and conceptual elements of social policy and learn to reflect upon these in relation to voluntary and community sector organizations involved in the delivery of social policy.

• THEORETICAL APPROACHESNeo-Liberalism and Social PolicyTowards a `New′ Social DemocracyMarxism and WelfarismFeminist Critiques of Social PolicyRacism and Social PolicyCONCEPTUAL DEBATES IN SOCIAL POLICYDistributive Justice and Social PolicyCitizenship, Social Solidarity and Social PolicyCultural Turns, Post-Structuralism and Social PolicyLiving in a Material WorldPostmodernism and Social PolicySOME CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY ISSUESChildren, Social Policy and the StateThe Dichotomy of Care and Control`Demographic Time Bomb′, or `Apocalyptic Demography′The Great Pensions DebateSocial Policy and the Politics of FoodWage Supplementation, Social Policy and the StateFrom then Old Poor Law to New LabourNew Labour and the Management of WelfareGlobalization and Social Policy