Baldock, J.C. (1999) Culture: The missing variable in understanding social policy? Social Policy & Administration, 33 (4). pp. 458-473. ISSN 0144-5596.
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Abstract
This paper questions the intuitive assumption that twentieth-century public welfare states have reflected the wider culture in which they operate. It is argued that the postwar welfare state was a "modernist" project designed to change mass culture. As a result, social policy analysis has tended to ignore the wider culture as both a source and context for welfare. At the beginning of the twenty-first century new patterns of risk and postmodern cultural formations are supporting eclectic policymaking which is more in tune with cultural majorities. This signals the end of the systematic welfare state.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Welfare state; Culture; Postmodernism |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research |
| Depositing User: | M. Nasiriavanaki |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2009 06:59 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2009 06:59 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/17042 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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