Hartley Dean explains the extraordinary scope and importance of social policy. Introducing social policy as a broadly conceived study of human wellbeing, this extensively updated third edition examines ways in which governments and peoples throughout the world attend to, promote, neglect or even undermine the things that make life worth living.
This second edition of a widely-respected textbook is one of the few resources available to provide an overview of human need, as a key concept in the social sciences. Accessible and engaging, it models existing practical and theoretical approaches to human need while also proposing a radical alternative.
Focusing on rights-based approaches in social policy, this text examines the crucial role of social rights in promoting human wellbeing. It serves as a foundational resource for students and researchers in social policy, socio-legal studies, and social development, offering critical insights into the relationship between rights and social welfare.
This book, initially released in 1992, is published by Routledge, a notable imprint of Taylor & Francis. It offers insights and analysis on a specific topic, contributing to academic discourse and understanding within its field. The work is part of a broader collection that emphasizes scholarly research and critical thought.
Exploring a unique concept of sociality, the book delves into how humans collectively address their welfare and recognize each other's needs through shared social rights. It offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of human care and social responsibility, emphasizing the interconnectedness of individuals within a community and the importance of mutual support in fostering well-being.
Focusing on welfare rights, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy by examining its historical development, comparative frameworks, and critical perspectives. It delves into the evolution of welfare rights, providing context for understanding contemporary social policy debates and practices.
A Modeling Perspective
This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and suggests a new way to do the modeling. It presents an ontology that describes the unconventional conflict domain, which allows for greater ease in modeling unconventional conflict. Supporting holistic modeling, which means that we can see the entire picture of what needs to be modeled, the ontology allows us to make informed decisions about what to model and what to omit. The unconventional conflict ontology also separates the things we understand best from the things we understand least. This separation means that we can perform verification, validation and accreditation (VV&A) more efficiently and can describe the competence of the model more accurately. However, before this message can be presented in its entirety the supporting body of knowledge has to be explored. For this reason, the book offers chapters that focus on the description of unconventional conflict and the analyses that have been performed, modeling, with a concentration on past efforts at modeling unconventional conflict, the precursors to the ontology, and VV&A. Unconventional conflict is a complex, messy thing. It normally involves multiple actors, with their own conflicting agendas and differing concepts of legitimate actions. This book will present a useful introduction for researchers and professionals within the field.