Dean Understanding Human Need

2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4200-7
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice

This second edition of a widely respected textbook is one of the few resources available to provide an overview of human need, as a key concept in the social sciences. Taking an approach encompassing both global North and South, this accessible and engaging book models existing practical and theoretical approaches to human need while also proposing a radical alternative.

Incorporating crucial current debates and illustrations, the author explores:

• distinctions between different types and levels of need;

• how different approaches are reflected in different sorts of policy goals;

• debates about the relationship between needs, rights and welfare;

• contested thinking about needs in relation to caring, disadvantage and humanity.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition pays due regard to the shifting nature of welfare ideologies and welfare regimes. Offering essential insights for students of social policy, it will also be of interest to other social science disciplines, policy makers and political activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Hartley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: Understandings and concepts

The needs of humanity

The thin and the thick of need and needing

Needs in theory

Needs in practice

Human need and social policy

Part Two: Implications and debates

Unmet needs and social disadvantage

Articulating needs as rights

The politics of human need

Über Autor(innen)

Dean, Hartley
Hartley Dean is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.