Gerald Handel

Social Welfare in Western Society

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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.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4128-0852-1
EAN: 9781412808521
Produktnummer: 3786431
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 404 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D3.0 cm 750 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 750

Über den Autor

Gerald Handel is professor emeritus of sociology at The City College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man, editor of Childhood Socialization, and co-editor of The Psychosocial Interior of the Family, all published by Transaction Publishers.