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Theorising Welfare

Enlightenment and Modern Society
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This text looks at the historical and contemporary changes in social welfare systems and provision, and the debates and struggles surrounding them. The perspectives of liberalism, Marxism, neo-liberalism, post-structuralism, political economy, political ecology and postmodernism are used to provide an introduction to the theoretical frameworks within which the sociological perspectives on welfare have been formulated. The authors also examine: issues such as the justification for theory in the analysis of welfare as well as the present definitions of theory, social welfare, the welfare state and the state; and show how social theories construct the relationship between state, society, economy, culture, environment, production, consumption and other forms of individual and collective and experience.
Introduction PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROGRESS Liberalism Marxism PART TWO: AGAINST ENLIGHTENMENT: QUESTIONS ON POWER AND KNOWLEDGE Neo-Liberalism Poststructuralism PART THREE: POST-ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEMATICS Political Economy Political Ecology Postmodernism Critiques and Conclusion
`Very well written and painstakingly clear. It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep' - Scott Lash, University of Lancaster
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