Introducing Social Policy, 2nd edition
By Cliff Alcock, et al.
Pearson Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
June 2008
ISBN: 9781405858489
304 pages
$72.50 Paper Original
Description
The completely revised second edition of this highly respected textbook provides a comprehensive yet digestible and accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, development and crucial areas of contemporary concern in social policy and welfare. Fully up to date, it provides a concise but thorough overview of the context for the provision of social welfare in contemporary Britain and beyond. Providing an integrated framework to highlight the relationships between theory, policy and practice, Introducing Social Policy examines social policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It therefore encourages a broad understanding of the importance of the subject within social policy itself, as well in social work, healthcare, education and beyond.
ContentsAuthors and Contributors Guided Tour Preface Acknowledgements
1. Introduction – What is Social Policy?
Introduction to Part 1
Part
1: Historical development of welfare
2. Welfare before the state
3. The Welfare
State Years: Consensus and Conflict
Concluding comment to Part 1
Introduction
to Part 2
Part 2: Contemporary welfare
4. A ‘crisis’ of the welfare
state
5. Making Policy
6. The Governance of Social Policy
7. Welfare within
a Fragmented State - Devolved Social Policy
8. Paying for welfare
Concluding
comment to Part 2
Introduction to Part 3
Part 3: Theorising and Researching
Welfare
9. Political theory, the state, and welfare
10. Ideology, the state
and welfare in Britain
11. Doing Social Research
Concluding comment to Part
3
Introduction to Part 4
Part 4: Welfare themes
12. Health Policy
13. Social
Care
14. Housing Policy
15. Education
16. Work and Employment Policy
17.
Pensions Policy
18. Family Policy
19. Social Divisions and Equal Opportunities
Policies
20. Crime and Criminal Justice
21. The Living Environment
22. International
Social Policy: Globalisation And The European Union
Concluding comment to
Part 4
References Glossary of terms Index
Features- Covers all the key areas of Social Policy
- Discusses the historical, ideological and political context in which social and welfare policy has developed
- Fully and comprehensibly explores the theoretical underpinnings of social policy
- Explores in detail the changing contemporary context of social policy
- An accessible, stepped writing style introduces and contextualises the basics before moving to the next level