
Ordering Lives
Family, Work and Welfare
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 13. April 2000
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-415-22291-4 (ISBN)
Description
Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It shows how everyday life within these institutions is marked by the exercise of power and resistance and it charts the ways in which wider social change has affected these processes. Ordering Lives: Family, Work and Welfare engages with some of the most pressing issues affecting our society in a lively yet academically rigorous manner. At the same time, it offers students of the social sciences a crucial first introduction to the way that theory is used in social science explanations of social relations and institutional arrangements. This is a key introductory text for all students beginning study in sociology, social policy or general social sciences.Does it any longer make sense to talk about a "welfare state" in today's UK?
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-22291-4 (9780415222914)
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Content
1. Power: its institutional guises (and disguises) John Allen 2. Family: from tradition to diversity Norma Sherratt and Gordon Hughes 3. Markets, work and power Graham Dawson 4. From social security to personal responsibility? Ross Fergusson and Gordon Hughes