Understanding Human Need

Hartley Dean (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2020 | 2nd New edition
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4198-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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. Taking an approach encompassing both global North and South, this accessible and engaging book models existing practical and theoretical approaches to human need while also proposing a radical alternative.

Hartley Dean is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Introduction
PART I - UNDERSTANDINGS AND CONCEPTS
The needs of humanity
The ‘thin’ and the ‘thick’ of need and needing
Needs in theory
Needs in practice
Human need and social policy
PART II - IMPLICATIONS AND DEBATES
Unmet needs and social disadvantage
Articulating needs as rights
The politics of human need

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-4198-8 / 1447341988
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-4198-7 / 9781447341987
Zustand	Neuware