Social Policy: The Quest for Freedom, Equality and Justice
Timonen, Virpi
- 出版商: Polity
- 出版日期: 2025-02-11
- 售價: $2,440
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,318
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 222
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1509566031
- ISBN-13: 9781509566037
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商品描述
Concepts like freedom, equality and justice have many uses - and even more misuses. In seeking to manage an increasingly complex world, it is more important than ever to think carefully about the meaning of such concepts which are central to policy debates and integral to implementing effective social policy around the world.
This concise and readable book is a guide to those essential social policy concepts. In addition to freedom, equality and justice, the book covers concepts like social risks and rights that are critical for understanding welfare states, and examines social policies through the lenses of power, recognition and investment. It also reflects on the role of social policy in addressing the biggest challenges that humanity faces in the twenty-first century, including the megatrends of inequality and climate change.
Drawing on key works and examples from diverse contexts, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of social policy, sociology, social work and other social sciences, as well as researchers, policymakers, practitioners and activists looking for an accessible introduction to the heart of social policy.
This concise and readable book is a guide to those essential social policy concepts. In addition to freedom, equality and justice, the book covers concepts like social risks and rights that are critical for understanding welfare states, and examines social policies through the lenses of power, recognition and investment. It also reflects on the role of social policy in addressing the biggest challenges that humanity faces in the twenty-first century, including the megatrends of inequality and climate change.
Drawing on key works and examples from diverse contexts, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of social policy, sociology, social work and other social sciences, as well as researchers, policymakers, practitioners and activists looking for an accessible introduction to the heart of social policy.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
自由、平等和正義等概念有許多用途,甚至更多的誤用。在尋求管理日益複雜的世界時,仔細思考這些對政策辯論至關重要且對全球有效社會政策實施不可或缺的概念的意義,比以往任何時候都更為重要。
這本簡明易讀的書籍是對這些基本社會政策概念的指導。除了自由、平等和正義,書中還涵蓋了社會風險和權利等概念,這些概念對於理解福利國家至關重要,並通過權力、認可和投資的視角來檢視社會政策。它還反思了社會政策在應對人類在二十一世紀面臨的最大挑戰中的角色,包括不平等和氣候變化的重大趨勢。
本書借鑒了來自不同背景的關鍵著作和範例,將吸引社會政策、社會學、社會工作及其他社會科學的本科生和研究生,以及尋求對社會政策核心進行易於理解的介紹的研究人員、政策制定者、實踐者和活動家。
作者簡介
Virpi Timonen is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Helsinki.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Virpi Timonen 是赫爾辛基大學社會與公共政策的教授。