EBOOK: Reconceptualizing Social Policy: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Social Policy

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16 sep 2004 - 192 pagina's
  • How can sociological perspectives help us make sense of contemporary social policy?
  • How has the discipline of social policy engaged in recent sociological debates and developments?
This book provides a variety of sociological frameworks for understanding contemporary social policy. It explores how sociological perspectives may be used to theorize, conceptualize and research social policy.

Amanda Coffey captures the different ways in which social policy can be understood - as academic discipline, policy process, service provision and lived experience. The book engages with a range of policy areas and client groups, and pays attention to sociodemographic categories such as gender, 'race', class and age. Themes include:

  • The body and processes of embodiment
  • Citizenship and identity
  • Equality and differences
  • Space and time
  • Research and representation
Reconceptualizing Social Policy is a key text for students and lecturers in sociology and social policy.
 

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Chapter 01 Introduction
1
Chapter 02 Sociological Theory and Thinking
9
Chapter 03 Social Policy Feminism and Postmodern Times
25
Chapter 04 Social Policy Citizenship and Identity
43
Chapter 05 Social Policy Equality and Difference
59
Chapter 06 Social Policy and the Body
77
Chapter 07 Time Space and Social Policy
95
Chapter 08 Researching Social Policy
113
Chapter 09 Representing Social Policy
132
References
150
Index
171
Back cover
183
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