Understanding Human Need - (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice) 2nd Edition by Hartley Dean (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Hartley Dean is professor of social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- 224 Pages
- Political Science, Public Policy
- Series Name: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
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About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
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.
Incorporating crucial current debates and illustrations, the author explores:
- distinctions between different types and levels of need;
- how different approaches are reflected in different sorts of policy goals;
- debates about the relationship between needs, rights and welfare;
- contested thinking about needs in relation to caring, disadvantage and humanity.
Fully revised and updated, this new edition pays due regard to the shifting nature of welfare ideologies and welfare regimes. Offering essential insights for students of social policy, it will also be of interest to other social science disciplines, policy makers and political activists.
Review Quotes
''Dean...[has] established the study of human need as the foundation of social policy and offers a needs-first ethic that serves our humanity understood as consciousness, work, sociality and historical development" Citizen's Basic Income Trust
"Venturing beyond a standard revision, this second edition of Dean's textbook develops a novel radical humanist vision of need and outlines a 'needs-first' ethic. Of interest to a wider audience beyond social policy." Ian Gough, The London School of Economics and Political Science
About the Author
Hartley Dean is professor of social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
