ABSTRACT
Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing.
With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry:
- explains the origin of the word
- discusses its relationship to the social sciences
- describes its relevance to social policy and how widespread its use is
- outlines some of the key thinkers and research on the topic and gives suggestions for further reading.
Making it easy to understand and use the most important ideas in the area, this is an essential companion for all students taking social policy courses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry 1|3 pages
Active Welfare
entry 2|1 pages
Agency
entry 3|2 pages
Altruism
entry 4|1 pages
Assistance Payments
entry 5|1 pages
Asylum Seeker
entry 6|2 pages
Autonomy
entry 7|1 pages
Basic Income
entry 8|1 pages
Benefit
entry 9|2 pages
Beveridgian Welfare
entry 10|1 pages
Bismarckian Model
entry 11|1 pages
Black Economy
entry 12|1 pages
Body
entry 13|1 pages
Bureaucracy
entry 14|2 pages
Capabilities
entry 15|1 pages
Capitalism
entry 16|1 pages
Care/Carer/Caring
entry 17|1 pages
Categorical Benefits
entry 18|1 pages
Child Allowances
entry 19|2 pages
Citizenship
entry 20|1 pages
Class
entry 21|1 pages
Claw-Back
entry 22|1 pages
Collectivism
entry 23|1 pages
Commodification and Decommodification
entry 24|1 pages
Communitarian
entry 25|2 pages
Community
entry 26|1 pages
Comparative Social Policy
entry 27|1 pages
Conditionality
entry 28|1 pages
Convergence
entry 29|1 pages
Corporatism
entry 30|1 pages
Crisis of Welfare
entry 31|2 pages
Critical Junctures
entry 32|1 pages
Democracy
entry 33|1 pages
Dependency
entry 34|1 pages
Deserving/Undeserving
entry 35|3 pages
Disability
entry 36|1 pages
Discretion
entry 37|1 pages
Discrimination
entry 38|1 pages
Diswelfares
entry 39|1 pages
Division of Labour
entry 40|1 pages
Earnings
entry 41|1 pages
Eligibility
entry 42|1 pages
Employment
entry 43|1 pages
Entitlement
entry 44|3 pages
Environmentalism
entry 45|1 pages
Equality
entry 46|1 pages
Ethnicity
entry 47|1 pages
Fabianism
entry 48|1 pages
Families of Nations
entry 49|3 pages
Family
entry 50|2 pages
Feminism
entry 51|1 pages
Fiscal Welfare
entry 52|2 pages
Flexicurity
entry 53|1 pages
Functionings
entry 54|3 pages
Gender
entry 55|2 pages
Globalization
entry 56|1 pages
Global Social Policy
entry 57|3 pages
Health
entry 58|1 pages
Household
entry 59|2 pages
Human Capital
entry 60|2 pages
Human Trafficking
entry 61|1 pages
Ideology
entry 62|1 pages
Individualism
entry 63|1 pages
Individualization
entry 64|1 pages
Keynesian
entry 65|2 pages
Labour
entry 66|1 pages
Liberal
entry 67|1 pages
Liberty
entry 68|1 pages
Lone Parents
entry 69|2 pages
Male Breadwinner
entry 70|1 pages
Maternity
entry 71|2 pages
Marxism
entry 72|1 pages
Masculinities
entry 73|1 pages
Means Testing
entry 74|4 pages
Migration
entry 75|2 pages
Mixed Economy of Welfare
entry 76|2 pages
Models of Welfare
entry 77|2 pages
Needs
entry 78|1 pages
New Social Movements
entry 79|2 pages
Occupational Welfare
entry 80|1 pages
Path Dependency
entry 81|1 pages
Patriarchy
entry 82|4 pages
Poverty
entry 83|2 pages
Power
entry 84|1 pages
Power Resources
entry 85|1 pages
Public Policy
entry 86|2 pages
Quality of Life
entry 87|1 pages
Race
entry 88|1 pages
Rationing
entry 89|2 pages
Redistribution
entry 90|1 pages
Resilience
entry 91|2 pages
Risk
entry 92|2 pages
Selectivity
entry 93|4 pages
Sexuality
entry 94|1 pages
Social Administration
entry 95|1 pages
Social Assistance
entry 96|1 pages
Social Divisions
entry 97|4 pages
Social Exclusion
entry 98|2 pages
Social Insurance
entry 99|2 pages
Social Justice
entry 100|1 pages
Social Policy
entry 101|3 pages
Stigma
entry 102|1 pages
Stratification
entry 103|2 pages
Sustainable Development
entry 104|1 pages
Theory
entry 105|1 pages
Universality
entry 106|1 pages
Wages
entry 107|2 pages
Welfare Regimes
entry 108|1 pages
Welfare State
entry 109|3 pages
Welfare/Well-Being
entry 110|1 pages
Work–Life Balance
