Power and welfare : understanding citizens' encounters with state welfare - Mik-Meyer, Nanna; Villadsen, Kaspar (Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references : (pages [147]-155) and index.
Keywords: Human services; Social service; Public welfare