Social Policy and Public Policy

Taylor & Francis

Social Policy and Public PolicyInequality and Justice\nAuthor(s): Lee Rainwater\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138532878, 978-1138532878\nSynopsis\nThis classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the 1960s. Because the volume is structured as a survey, it is neither exhaustive or defi nitive. It does provide a wide range of information about these problems, as well as the many diff erent policy initiatives that were developed to cope with them. Readers can learn a great deal about the common themes, predilections and quandaries that characterized United States responses to the complex problems of the 1960s and the patterns of inequality and injustice prevalent at that time.\n\nThe essays were selected to cover the range of substantive problematic issues of the period, .