Understanding Social Problems Issues in Social Policy
by May, Margaret; Page, Robert; Brunsdon, EdwardEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-05
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This up-to-date and accessible text fills an important gap in the market by introducing students to social policy perspectives on social problems.
Author Biography
Margaret May is one of the editors of The Student's Companion to Social Policy (1997) and of the forthcoming Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy (2001).
Edward Brunsdon's publications include contributing to and editing The Social Policy Review (1996-1998) and studies of private welfare (in R Page & S Silburn (eds) British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century (1999) and welfare management (in S Horton & R Farnham (eds.) Public Management in Britain (1999).
Edward Brunsdon and Margaret May are Principal Lecturers in Social Policy in the Department of Sociology and Applied Social Studies at London Guildhall University.
Robert Page is currently a Reader in Social Policy at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Stigma (1984) and Altruism and the Welfare State (1996). He is the co-editor (with Vic George) of Modern Thinkers on Welfare (1995) and (with Richard Silburn) of British Social Welfare in the 20th Century (1999).
Table of Contents
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| About the Contributors | ix | ||||
| Guide to the Book | xiv | ||||
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| Part One Studying Social Problems | 1 | (30) | |||
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| Part Two Social Policy, Social Problems | 31 | (200) | |||
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| Part Three Reporting Social Problems | 231 | (48) | |||
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| Part Four Consumer Protection in Social Policy | 279 | (31) | |||
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| Index | 310 |
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