| Description |
xv, 381 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Haworth social work practice |
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Haworth social work practice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-372) and index. |
| Contents |
Policy Choice and Intervention -- Social Welfare Policy: When and Where? -- What Is Social Policy? -- Three Policy Sectors -- De Jure, De Facto, and Default Policy -- Types of Benefits: Material, Therapeutic, or Opportunit -- Forms of Delivery: In-Kind, Cash, or Voucher -- The Scope of Social Policy -- Making Choices -- Policy Analysis -- Making Policy Choices -- Intents -- Effects -- Policy Interventions -- No Hiding Place -- Where to Intervene -- When to Intervene -- Degrees of Intervention -- Changing the System -- Radical Change -- Reform -- Rules of the Game -- Changing Agent Behavior -- Supplementing the Hosts -- Social Policy and the Courts -- Foundations for Choice: Beliefs, Values, and Interests -- What's True? Facts and Beliefs -- Being Logical -- Scientific and Nonscientific Reasoning -- Three Sources of "Facts" -- Biases and Hermeneutics -- What's Right? Values and Interests -- Values -- Interests -- Values and Interests Entwined -- Ethics: Ends and Means -- Ethics: Gray Areas -- The Human Condition: Jewels, Jackals, or Junk? -- What Is a Person Worth? -- Noble or Base? -- Free Will or Determinism? -- Human Nature and the Causes of Poverty -- Fundamental Value Choices -- Fairness: Equality, Equity, or Adequacy? -- Distributive Justice: What Is Fair? -- Equality -- Equity -- Adequacy -- Multiple Tiers: Adequacy Plus Equity -- Nonfairness Doctrines -- Inequality and Redistribution -- Negative Freedom and Individualism -- Four Kinds of "Liberal" -- Negative Freedom -- Limiting Freedom. |
| Summary |
Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices provides frameworks for making basic social policy choices and applying them to specific instances. You'll find its depth of insight into the larger framework in which social policy decisions are made - beliefs, values, and interests - and its historical perspective on current "new" issues unique and invaluable. The book's approach is to develop a framework for looking at the underlying issues, ideologies, social and economic forces, culture, and institutionalized inequalities that are constant within this changing mass. This will enable you to understand and evaluate individual policy issues by exploring the possible choices, the effects and implications of each alternative choice, and the factors that influence each choice. |
| Subject |
Social policy.
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Public welfare.
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Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Burch, Hobart A. Social welfare policy analysis and choices. New York : Haworth Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607134397 |
| ISBN |
0789006022 (alk. paper) |
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9780789006028 (alk. paper) |
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0789006030 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780789006035 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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