Mik-Meyer, Nanna.

Power and welfare : understanding citizens' encounters with state welfare / spine title : Power and welfare. Nanna Mik-Meyer and Kaspar Villadsen. - xi, 162 pages ; 25 cm. - Routledge advances in health and social policy. .

Includes bibliographical references : (pages [147]-155) and index.

Introduction -- Foucault: the flexible critique of welfare -- Goffman: interaction and identity negotiations -- Bourdieu: field, symbolic violence and domination -- Luhmann: welfare in communicative systems -- Neo-institutional theory: myths and legitimacy -- Risk theory: normality, deviation and neo-liberalism -- Transcending the approaches.

9780415534420 (hbk.) RM469.20


Human services.
Social service.
Public welfare.