Social Welfare in Western Society

ISBN-13: 9781412808521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 404 str.

Gerald Handel

Opis

Social welfare has a three-thousand-year history in Western society. Th is book off ers a sociological framework that provides conceptual order to the countless details of that history, while highlighting its essentials. Social welfare in all its forms is based on one central concept-help. But there are many versions of help and multiple debates about those versions. Th e outcomes of some debates have led to withholding help, and these outcomes are an inescapable part of this domain, in the past and in the present. Th e major versions, their development, and the debates are carefully examined in this volume.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, Acknowledgments, Prologue, Chronology, I INTRODUCTION, II CHARITY AND PHILANTHROPY, III PUBLIC WELFARE, IV SOCIAL INSURANCE, V SOCIAL SERVICE, VI MUTUAL AID, VII CONCLUSION, References, Glossary, Index

O autorze

Bernice Neugarten