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Welfare Discipline
Sanford F. Schram
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Description for Welfare Discipline
Paperback. Features ideas for making welfare policy just and effective. This book offers a contextual approach to understanding topics such as the development of assets-based approaches to helping the poor. It stresses the importance of understanding the ways we talk about welfare, the ways it is studied, and attention to what is not being discussed and why. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 407. Weight in Grams: 308.
Takes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand them
Takes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand them
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592133024
SKU
V9781592133024
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99-15
Reviews for Welfare Discipline
"Schram critiques current trends in welfare policy and argues for using new approaches in studying welfare policy and governance. The new approach features a compassionate emphasis on reducing harm in order to allow for diversity while building community in an era of globalization." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "This book should challenge assumptions about redistributive politics in the ... Read more