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The Decent Society : Planning for Social Quality.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317438281
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 The decent society -- What we expect from government -- Understanding decent lives -- Measuring decent lives -- Social quality and the decent society -- Conditions for the decent society -- 2 Economic security -- Resources for survival -- The wealth of nations -- The social wage -- The functions of economic security -- The sustainability of economic security -- Measuring economic security -- 3 Social cohesion -- The cohesive society -- Domains and functions of social cohesion -- Governance -- The scope and sustainability of social cohesion -- Measuring social cohesion -- 4 Social inclusion -- What social inclusion means -- Processes of social inclusion -- Family, community and inclusion -- The functions and elements of social inclusion -- Measuring social inclusion -- 5 Social empowerment -- Agency and its context -- Empowerment and capability -- The elements of empowerment -- Measuring empowerment -- 6 Social quality in transitional societies: A summary of research -- Developing research: towards social quality -- The former Soviet Union: countries in transition -- Rwanda: a state that recreated itself -- From satisfaction to the decent society -- 7 Constructing a Decent Society Index -- The need for a different index -- Constituting the Decent Society Index -- 8 Using the Decent Society Index -- Headline results -- The top sixteen countries -- Planned social development: the case of Rwanda -- The world's poorest countries -- Using the Decent Society Index -- 9 Conclusions and future directions -- The Decent Society Model -- Assessing the Model -- Capability, functioning and the provision of prerequisite conditions -- The uses of the Index -- Next steps in using the Model and the Index.
References -- Appendix -- Index.
Summary: This book addresses how to create 'the Decent Society', drawing on sociological and sociopolitical theory. It addresses a decade of international social quality research and proposes a Decent Society Index for world-wide comparison. It will interest academics in sociology, politics, social policy, psychology, economics and development studies and also government policy-makers and policy evaluators.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 The decent society -- What we expect from government -- Understanding decent lives -- Measuring decent lives -- Social quality and the decent society -- Conditions for the decent society -- 2 Economic security -- Resources for survival -- The wealth of nations -- The social wage -- The functions of economic security -- The sustainability of economic security -- Measuring economic security -- 3 Social cohesion -- The cohesive society -- Domains and functions of social cohesion -- Governance -- The scope and sustainability of social cohesion -- Measuring social cohesion -- 4 Social inclusion -- What social inclusion means -- Processes of social inclusion -- Family, community and inclusion -- The functions and elements of social inclusion -- Measuring social inclusion -- 5 Social empowerment -- Agency and its context -- Empowerment and capability -- The elements of empowerment -- Measuring empowerment -- 6 Social quality in transitional societies: A summary of research -- Developing research: towards social quality -- The former Soviet Union: countries in transition -- Rwanda: a state that recreated itself -- From satisfaction to the decent society -- 7 Constructing a Decent Society Index -- The need for a different index -- Constituting the Decent Society Index -- 8 Using the Decent Society Index -- Headline results -- The top sixteen countries -- Planned social development: the case of Rwanda -- The world's poorest countries -- Using the Decent Society Index -- 9 Conclusions and future directions -- The Decent Society Model -- Assessing the Model -- Capability, functioning and the provision of prerequisite conditions -- The uses of the Index -- Next steps in using the Model and the Index.

References -- Appendix -- Index.

This book addresses how to create 'the Decent Society', drawing on sociological and sociopolitical theory. It addresses a decade of international social quality research and proposes a Decent Society Index for world-wide comparison. It will interest academics in sociology, politics, social policy, psychology, economics and development studies and also government policy-makers and policy evaluators.

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