TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aliyev,Ulvi
AU  - Beck,Wolfgang
AU  - Bobkov,Vyacheslav
AU  - Fairweather,Anne
AU  - Gasper,Des
AU  - Hacking,Sue
AU  - Herrmann,Peter
AU  - Hiroi,Yoshinori
AU  - Lin,Ka
AU  - Maesen,Laurent van der
AU  - Roncevic,Borut
AU  - Rydbjerg,Maj
AU  - Taylor-Gooby,Peter
AU  - Therborn,Göran
AU  - Therborn,Sonia
AU  - Valentova,Marie
AU  - Veredyuk,Olesya
AU  - Walker,Alan
AU  - Zajc,Mojca
TI  - Social Quality Theory: A New Perspective on Social Development 
SN  - 9781782388975
U1  - 306 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Social policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology, Development Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Reconceptualization of Social Quality --; Chapter 2 Indicators of Social Quality: Outcomes of the European Scientific Network --; CHAPTER 3 Social Quality and Welfare System Sustainability --; CHAPTER 4 The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and Its Applicability to Asian Societies --; Chapter 5 Economic Performance, Social Progress and Social Quality --; Chapter 6 The Human and the Social: A Comparison of the Discourses of Human 93 Development, Human Security and Social Quality --; Chapter 7 Social Quality in Britain: A Welfare State? --; Chapter 8 Social Quality in Sweden --; Chapter 9 Visions of the Sustainable Welfare Society: Extending Social Quality into an Asian/Developmental Context --; Chapter 10 Risks of Society Stability and Precarity of Employment: A Look at Russia --; Chapter 11 The Rational Actor Reform Paradigm: Delivering the Goods but Destroying Public Trust? --; Social Quality: An Invitation to Dance --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach,  which assesses societal progress and introduces proposals that are relevant for policy making. Crucially, important components emerge with research by scholars from Asia, particularly China, eastern Europe, and other regions beyond western Europe, the theory’s place of origin. As this volume shows, this rich diversity of approaches and their cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388982?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782388982
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782388982/original
ER  -