num_pages: 224
description: From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society situates its analysis of the welfare state in what the author calls the modernity the conflict between ideas from the present and the past about the future. The clash between modernism, anti-modernism and postmodernism as "ways of seeing" and approaching social policy questions is a theme which runs through the text. The relevance of concepts such as post-Fordism, postemotionalism. communitarianism, stakeholding, globalization , and social exclusion for understanding the contemporary welfare debate is demonstrated in a very integrated analysis.
language: English
title: From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society: The Changing Context of Social Policy in a Postmodern Era
titlecomplete: From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society: The Changing Context of Social Policy in a Postmodern Era
publisher: Palgrave MacMillan