Welfare: Needs, Rights and RisksMary Langan Routledge, 2005 M10 27 - 352 pages Welfare: Needs, Rights and Risks addresses the question of how people get access to social welfare in the UK today. It explores the public, political and professional definitions, constructions and conflicts about who should receive social welfare and under what conditions. In a period during which the rationing, targeting and selective provision of welfare have become more significant, more visible and more disputed, this book examines how individuals and groups come to be defined as in need, at risk or deserving of welfare. |
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... particular emphasis to the processes of social differentiation and their implications for social welfare. The series also emphasizes the ways in which social problems and solutions to them have been socially constructed and are subject ...
... particular emphasis to the processes of social differentiation and their implications for social welfare. The series also emphasizes the ways in which social problems and solutions to them have been socially constructed and are subject ...
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... particular, it emphasizes the socially constructed character of those relationships, giving attention to the shifting social and political conflicts that have shaped the constructions of needs, rights and risks. Some of the chapters ...
... particular, it emphasizes the socially constructed character of those relationships, giving attention to the shifting social and political conflicts that have shaped the constructions of needs, rights and risks. Some of the chapters ...
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... particular system of welfare is a product of a particular society at a particular time: it is, in short, a social construction. In section 2 we begin by exploring the tension between the individual and society in defining and meeting ...
... particular system of welfare is a product of a particular society at a particular time: it is, in short, a social construction. In section 2 we begin by exploring the tension between the individual and society in defining and meeting ...
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... particular benefit or service may be taken as a clear indication of an individual's demand for welfare provision. However, it is important to recognize that such a statement is based on a number of presuppositions. An individual can ...
... particular benefit or service may be taken as a clear indication of an individual's demand for welfare provision. However, it is important to recognize that such a statement is based on a number of presuppositions. An individual can ...
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... particular interests of the male worker as the universal interests of society. In the 1950s and 1960s the welfare state thus ratified the established sexual division of labour in society: the effective exclusion of women from the world ...
... particular interests of the male worker as the universal interests of society. In the 1950s and 1960s the welfare state thus ratified the established sexual division of labour in society: the effective exclusion of women from the world ...
Contents
CHAPTER 2 Rationing Health Care | 38 |
CHAPTER 3 Whose Needs Whose Resources? Accessing Social Care | 89 |
Who Decides? | 139 |
The Young Offender and Youth Justice Policy | 186 |
CHAPTER 6 Legitimate Membership of the Welfare Community | 231 |
CHAPTER 7 Review | 278 |
Acknowledgements | 292 |
Index | 294 |
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