Description: Institutionalization of Social Welfare : A Study of Medicalizing Management, Paperback by Holmqvist, Mikael, ISBN 0415542871, ISBN-13 9780415542876, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears inconceivable to imagine "civilized society" without a comprehensive organizational system of social welfare. Social welfare has become a "holy cow" in many societies; an institutionalized aspect of modern life. But how does the institutionalization of social welfare occur through the concrete activities it enacts; and why does the institutionalization of social welfare appear to be so particularly successful in relation to other institutionalizing phenomena? These are central problems for any sociological analysis of contemporary society’s organization and are the main locus of attention of this book. Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by "medicalizing" its environment: a way of "solving" social problems by viewing and treating them as medical problems. This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about and contributes fresh insight to the area of social welfare policies.
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Book Title: Institutionalization of Social Welfare : A Study of Medicalizing
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: Institutionalization of Social Welfare : a Study of Medicalizing Management
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Organizational Behavior, Methodology, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Mikael Holmqvist
Item Length: 6 in
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
