Social quality theory : a new perspective on social development /: a new perspective on social development. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ka Lin and Peter Herrmann.
• Editors: Lin, Ka; Herrmann, Peter, 1955-
• Contents: <a href="/downloads/intros/LinSocial_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction ; Ka Lin and Peter Herrmann Chapter 1. Reconceptualization of Social Quality; Anne Fairweather, Borut Roncevic, Maj Rydbjerg, Marie Valentova and Mojca Zajc Chapter 2. Indicators of Social Quality: Outcomes of the European Scientific Network; Laurent J.G. van der Maesen and Alan Walker Chapter 3. Social Quality and Welfare System Sustainability; Alan Walker Chapter 4. The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and Its Applicability to Asian Societies; Ka Lin Chapter 5. Economic Performance, Social Progress and Social Quality; Peter Hermann Chapter 6. The Human and the Social: A Comparison of the Discourses of Human Development, Human Security and Social Quality; Des Gasper Chapter 7. Social Quality in Britain: A Welfare State?; Sue Hacking Chapter 8. Social Quality in Sweden; Göran Therborn and Sonia Therborn Chapter 9. Visions of the Sustainable Welfare Society: Extending Social Quality into an Asian/Developmental Context; Yoshinori Hiroi Chapter 10. Risks of Society Stability and Precarity of Employment: A Look at Russia; Vyacheslav Bobkov, Olesya Veredyuk and Ulvi Aliyev Chapter 11. The Rational Actor Reform Paradigm: Delivering the Goods but Destroying Public Trust?; Peter Taylor-Gooby Social Quality: An Invitation to Dance; Wolfgang Beck Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 303.44; Progress; Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782388982
• Related ISBNs: 9781782388975
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