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The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts, and issues in social policy This lively and readable text has been designed tprovide the essential tools to understand the main theoretical debates surrounding the discipline The book is organized intthree sections: Section One offers a detailed but accessible critique of major theoretical approaches such as neo-liberalism, Marxism, feminism and racism; Section Twexplores conceptual debates such as distributive justice and postmodernism; Section Three engages with contemporary social policy issues such as children, pensions and the role of New Labor; The new edition of alsfeatures newly commissioned chapters treflect recent developments and current debates within social policy New areas of consideration include citizenship; post-structuralism; the politics of food; and globalization Student exercises and reading lists feature throughout the text and practical examples are skillfully used tillustrate conceptual and theoretical material Social Policy: Theories, Concepts and Issues is a core textbook for undergraduate social policy students, as well as those studying related welfare modules across the social sciences
