An intellectual history of British social policy : idealism versus non-idealism
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An intellectual history of British social policy : idealism versus non-idealism
Policy Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index
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: hardcover ISBN 9781861345301
内容説明
The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers. This topical book charts the period from the 1830s to the present day, providing a fresh analysis of the relationship between social theory and social policy in the UK. Drawing on recent historical research, the book: reconsiders and challenges many long-held beliefs about the 'evolution' of social policy; presents a wide-ranging reappraisal of links between social theories and changes in social policy; pays particular attention to the importance of idealist social thought as an intellectual framework for understanding the 'welfare state'; has a distinctive focus on the importance of ideas in the history of social policy. Different ideas about the means and aims of social policy suggested by Individualists, Idealists and Fabian Socialists are examined in depth and their impacts on the world of social policy reassessed. Special consideration is given to the history of ideas in relation to informal care and voluntary action, as well as action by the state.
This book provides a valuable framework that exposes many of the assumptions about the nature of 'welfare' and its future direction, making it important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in the field of social policy.
目次
- Introduction
- 'Virtue' and the Poor Law in Britain and Ireland in the 1830s
- Spencer and a liberal road to welfare: the individual in Spencer's social theory
- The case of older people: social thought and divergent prescriptions for care
- Social policy and idealist versus non-idealist thought: the fundamental schism
- Idealist thought, social policy and the rediscovery of informal care
- Social theory and voluntary action in Britain since 1880
- Epilogue: from Poor Law to Labour's 'new idealism'.
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: pbk ISBN 9781861345318
内容説明
The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers. This topical book charts the period from the 1830s to the present day, providing a fresh analysis of the relationship between social theory and social policy in the UK.
Drawing on recent historical research, the book:
* reconsiders and challenges many long-held beliefs about the 'evolution' of social policy;
* presents a wide-ranging reappraisal of links between social theories and changes in social policy;
* pays particular attention to the importance of idealist social thought as an intellectual framework for understanding the 'welfare state' ;
* has a distinctive focus on the importance of ideas in the history of social policy.
目次
- Contents: Images of welfare: conceptual bearings
- 'The most pressing of evils': outdoor relief, the Poor Law and social theory
- Herbert Spencer, beneficiance and voluntaryism
- Charity: the engine of social progress
- 'A definite minimum of civilised life': Hobson, Hobhouse and the Webbs
- Beveridge
- Idealist thought, Titmuss and the new subject of social administration
- Non-idealism resurgent: the rediscovery of informal care and welfare pluralism
- New Labour and a new idealism: the state, voluntary action and the 'Third Way'
- Conclusion.
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