The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Phillips ◽  
Carollee Howes ◽  
Marcy Whitebook
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social

The Social Policy Context of Child Care: Effects on Quality

2002 ◽  
pp. 367-393
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Phillips ◽  
Carollee Howes ◽  
Marcy Whitebook
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social

The evolution of social policy analysis in Ireland: from a theocentric to an econocentric paradigm?

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Fiona Dukelow
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter situates policy analysis within a social policy context and begins by stressing its early theocratic formation. It is an examination of the history of social policy analysis in Ireland since the 1950s, when the country began its journey towards modernity. The chapter reviews the actors and institutions involved and the knowledge deployed as the country moved towards a globalised society with its attendant social policy challenges. Dukelow charts the complexities of social policy analysis under what she characterises as the shift from the dominance of a theocentric paradigm to an econocentric paradigm. This saw the subordinating of the social to the economic valuation of social policy by the 1990s.

Work and Retirement Transitions: Changing Sociological and Social Policy Contexts

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Phillipson
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
The Social

The main argument of this paper is that retirement will retain its importance over the next few decades, despite pressure from governments to encourage workers to delay leaving paid employment. Retirement may prove especially difficult to reverse among the ‘baby boom’ cohorts where an expectation of withdrawing from work at earlier ages has become entrenched. The article examines the policy context influencing current debates. It then reviews data on retirement attitudes and trends in the employment of older workers. The paper concludes by arguing for a ‘broadening’ in the social institution of retirement, with the development of new types of social engagement in formal as well as informal spheres of activity.

scholarly journals Governmentality, Social Policy and the Social Construction of Old Age in England

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 108-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
People First ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Active Citizen

This article looks in more detail at the incidence and consequence of social policies for older people through the distinctly French post-structuralist lens of governmentality (Foucault, 1977). This will enable us to consider the implications of the re-figuring of the relationship between the state, older people and social work. This re-figuring constructs an ambiguous place for older people: they feature either as a resource - captured in the idea of the „active citizen‟, as affluent consumers, volunteers or providers of child care - or as a problem in the context of poverty, vulnerability and risk. In many ways, policy provides three trajectories for older people: first, as independent self-managing consumers with private means and resources; second, as people in need of some support to enable them to continue to self-manage; and third, as dependent and unable to commit to self-management. Governmentality provides the theoretical framework through which to view policy and practice that is largely governed by discourses of personalisation, safeguarding, capability and risk.

The Social Policy Areas of Marriage and Family, Family Planning, Child Care and Health Care in China

1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Maria Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
World Population ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The author was recently invited by the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to visit China on a special U.S.-China Relations Tour. One of the most impressive characteristics of the visit was the impact that the social system has upon individuals in China. Consequently, China's human services structure is designed to cooperate in the building of a strong, socialist state. This article is an attempt to briefly discuss four significant social policy areas in the Peoples Republic of China. These policy areas include: marriage and family; family planning; child care, and health care. These particular social policy areas will have a major influence as to whether China will have the domestic resources in order to achieve its goal of the four modernizations (agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology). For those of us who perceive ourselves as world citizens, China should be of special interest because it now cares for over one-fifth of the total world population.

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