Social Policy and Risk.
Title:
Social Policy and Risk.
Author:
Culpitt, Ian R.
ISBN:
9781446265666
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Welfare Hazard, Social Policy and Risk: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Following Foucault: Governance, Security and Risk -- Chapter 3 - Welfare Obligations and Safety Nets: The Lessening of Risk -- Chapter 4 - Contract, Freedom and Choice: The Rediscovery of Risk -- Chapter 5 - The Risk Arena: Citizenship, Rights and the Marketplace -- Chapter 6 - Avoidance of Bads: Beck's New Ubiquity of Risk? -- Chapter 7 - The Radical Rupture of Risk Society: A Critical Review -- Chapter 8 - Risk and Recognition: A View Forward? -- Chapter 9 - The Welfare Gaze: Risk and the Dilemmas of Dependency -- Afterword - Foucault's Coldest of all Cold Monsters! -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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