Social Policy and Risk

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5886-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

`As the study of social policy comes increasingly to address issues of theorising welfare in a period of fundamental social change, Culpitt's book is especially welcome in helping to update the reader in many of the debates and explorations surrounding social change, in particular those instigated by Foucault some two decades ago - his work on "governmentality" is central to Culpitt's book - and by Beck on risk more recently. The book also serves as a useful introduction to other key thinkers influencing social theory today whose work also addresses issues central to social policy, such as Giddens, Honneth and Turner' - Martin Hewitt, University of Hertfordshire
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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culpitt, Ian R

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Welfare Hazard, Social Policy and Risk An Introduction Following Foucault Governance, Security and Risk Welfare Obligations and Safety Nets The Lessening of Risk Contract, Freedom and Choice The Rediscovery of Risk The Risk Arena Citizenship, Rights and the Marketplace Avoidance of Bads Beck's New Ubiquity of Risk? The Radical Rupture of Risk Society A Critical Review Risk and Recognition A View Forward? The Welfare Gaze Risk and the Dilemmas of Dependency Afterword Foucault's Coldest of Cold Monsters!