About the Book: Social Policy (Short Introductions)
How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can
we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should
take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the
fundamental questions addressed by social policy today. In this introduction,
Hartley Dean explains the extraordinary scope and importance of social policy.
He explores its foundations and contemporary significance; the principal issues
it addresses and their diverse economic, political and sociological dimensions,
and concludes by looking anew at fundamental challenges facing social policy in
a dramatically changing