From A Welfare State To A Welfare Society: The Changing Context of Social Policy in a Postmodern Era

From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society situates its analysis of the welfare state in what the author calls the modernity debate: the conflict between ideas from the present and the past about the future. The clash between modernism, anti-modernism and postmodernism as "ways of seeing" and approaching social policy questions is a theme which runs through the text. The relevance of concepts such as post-Fordism, postemotionalism. communitarianism, stakeholding, globalization, andsocial exclusion for understanding the contemporary welfare debate is demonstrated in a very integrated analysis.