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1 online resource (x, 180 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-175) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Welfare hazard, social policy and risk: an introduction -- 2. Following Foucault: governance, security and risk -- 3. Welfare obligations and safety nets: the lessening of risk -- 4. Contract, freedom and choice: the rediscovery of risk -- 5. The risk arena: citizenship, rights and the marketplace -- 6. Avoidance of bads: Beck's new ubiquity of risk? -- 7. The radical rupture of Risk society: a critical review -- 8. Risk and recognition: a view forward? -- The welfare gaze: risk and the dilemmas of dependency -- Afterword: Foucault's coldest of all cold monsters! -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
Applying ideas of risk to the recent changes in welfare, this text includes the theories of Foucalt and Beck. The author also seeks to demonstrate how neo-liberals have used various aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social policy -- Philosophy.
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Social policy -- Philosophy. |
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Social policy. |
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Public welfare -- Philosophy.
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Public welfare -- Philosophy. |
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Public welfare. |
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Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Risk -- Sociological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Cover Title |
Social policy & risk |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Culpitt, Ian. Social policy and risk. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1999 9780761958857 (DLC) 98061883 (OCoLC)42894060 |
| ISBN |
9781446265666 (electronic book) |
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1446265668 (electronic book) |
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9781446218211 (ebook) |
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144621821X (ebook) |
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0761958851 |
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9780761958857 |
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076195886X (paperback) |
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9780761958864 (paperback) |
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