Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy - Couverture souple

Garrett, Paul Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473968976 ISBN 13 : 9781473968974

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Insightful and engaging, Welfare Words provides a critical analysis of social work and social policy in its articulation and discussion of a number of significant words and phrases. Written by an authoritative voice in the field, Paul Michael Garrett makes sense of complex theories which codify everyday experience, giving students and practitioners vital tools to better understand and change their social worlds.

Lucid and accessible in style, Garrett offers an innovative approach to the study of Social Welfare, encouraging readers to think critically about the key issues in social work and social policy, including welfare dependency, social inclusion and exclusion, underclasses, anti-social behavior, and more.  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Garrett is the respected author of Remaking Social Work with Children and Families (Routledge, 2003); Social Work with Irish Children and Families in Britain (Policy Press, 2004); ′Transforming′ Children's Services? (Open University/McGraw Hill, 2009); Social Work and Social Theory (Policy Press, 2013, but with a Chinese edition presently being negotiated); Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work: Children and Families (Policy Press, 2014). His work has appeared in international peer reviewed journals across a range of disciplines; approximately 100 hundred articles have been published since 1998.

He have presented papers at a number of international conferences. His next invited 'keynote' is schedule for the international Sociology and Social Work conference in 2015. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Critical Social Policy (SAGE) (where he edits the Reviews section), the European Journal of Social Work (Taylor & Francis) and he is also a Journal of Progressive Human Services (Taylor & Francis)consulting editor for the US-based .

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473968976
• ISBN 13: 9781473968974
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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