James Midgley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3876196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Midgley |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Midgley |
| FIRMA | MIDGLEY J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0745-7533 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Reflections on social development
This article contributes to a collection of especially commissioned papers to mark the 60th anniversary of Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk. Reflecting the author’s personal views on the past, present and likely future trajectory of social development, he contends that there has been significant progress, but also severe setbacks that have fostered the currently pessimistic views of the field. Nevertheless, he contends that stubborn optimism is need…
Celebrating a century of international social work
Greetings in Commemoration of 100 Years of Social Work in Chile and Latin America
The social development approach to social protection and social welfare
This chapter formulates the distinctive features of the social development approach to social protection and its linkages to the wider social welfare system in development contexts. It reviews different normative accounts that provide a conceptual basis for the field. It outlines the key features of the social development approach and contrasts them with these accounts, including their limitations. The analysis shows that the social development a…
Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice
This thought-provoking book examines the role of social protection in reducing inequality and enhancing social justice. It assesses social protection's impact on inequality in different parts of the world and shows that if carefully designed, adequately funded and effectively implemented, it can make a significant contribution to reducing income, gender and other forms of inequality. In this way, it can promote egalitarian ideals and enhance soci…
Handbook of Social Policy and Development
The key institutions, actors, processes and outcomes of social policy and development are traditionally conceptualized and theorized in relation to countries, and intra-national processes of development and change.An established body of literature considers how social policy and social development strategies, actors, institutions and outcomes in transnational contexts, emphasising how these are projected 'outwardly' and how policy formation trans…
Social Development, Asset Building, and Social Investment
This article provides an historical background to the special issue by tracing the evolution of social development, asset building and social investment in different parts of the world. These approaches transcend remedial and service-oriented interventions and seek to promote progressive social change. They also stress the importance of investing in people and communities, and focusing on their strengths rather than deficits. The historical evolu…
Social Investment and Social Welfare
Reframing global social policy
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda. This framework opens the way to a truly global social policy …
Future Directions in Social Development
This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development. The book succinctly presents the historical context and progress of social development. By reflecting on the Millenniu
Social Welfare for a Global Era
KEY FEATURES: A focus on international collaboration in social welfare includes the way social policymaking is becoming increasingly internationalized through the efforts of multi-lateral organizations and the willingness of national governments to collaborate on international initiatives. A sensitivity to cultural diversity discusses the realities of global social welfare. An in-depth overview of the role of families and communities, nonprofits …
Social Enterprise
There has been a major shift in thinking about the role of governments and nonprofit organizations in social welfare since the 1980s. It was previously taken for granted that governments would be r
Austerity Versus Stimulus
Attempts to respond to the negative social and economic effects of the Great Recession have been cast in terms of the austerity versus stimulus debate. Although oversimplified, this debate reflects wider theoretical analyses of market economies and normative prescriptions for enhancing their functioning. Referencing the historical evolution of economic thought, these theories and their policy implications for responding to recessions are summariz…
Austerity Versus Stimulus
The Great Recession or Global Financial Crisis of 20072008 began with the collapse of several major financial institutions in both Europe and the United States. This crisis had a major impact on the well-being of citizens around the world, including the U.S. and Europe, where unemployment soared, many thriving but marginal small businesses were shuttered, and homelessness skyrocketed as highly indebted families were unable to meet their mortgage …
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change
The Sage Handbook of Social Work
PART ONE: WELFARE, SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK Social work, social policy and welfarism - David Gil Theorising welfare for social work - Mimi Abramovitz New modalities of welfare governance - Robert P. Fairbanks II Welfare professionals and Street-level Bureaucrats - Sanford Schram Gender and welfare - Mary Daly Welfare and social development - James Midgley PART TWO: SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVES Practice perspectives - Pamela Trevithick Ecological…
Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development
Although indigenous community-based welfare practices have historically promoted social well-being in African communities, their contribution has seldom been recognized. Because these practices play a major role in social development, they should be more effectively integrated with formal social development programs. Three examples of community-based social development innovations in Southern African countries, which integrate traditional coopera…
Colonialism and Welfare
The field of post-colonial studies has emphasized the way contemporary attitudes and institutions in both the industrial and developing nations have been shaped by centuries of European global domination. As the colonial era draws to an end, this article employs a post-colonial perspective to examine the origins, nature and functions of social welfare in previously colonized societies. It shows how contemporary social policies in these societies …
Britain's War on Poverty by Jane Waldfogel
Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia
Part I: Introduction and Context Introduction: Poverty and Social Policy Responses in East Asia Kwong-leung Tang and James Midgley 1. The Role of Social Security in Poverty Alleviation: An International Review James Midgley Part II: Country Case Studies: Social Security in East Asia 2. The Emergence of Social Assistance in China: Challenges and Issues Joe Leung, and Xu Yuebin 3. Social Assistance Programmes in Singapore Mui-teng Yap 4. Korea's Na…
The Institutional Approach to Social Policy
The Definition of Social Policy
Social policy and poverty in east Asia
The Handbook of Social Policy
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introdu…
The Social Development Perspective in Social Policy
Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare
Contemporary approaches to social welfare are based on the idea that the resources generated by economic growth should be redistributed to fund social programs. Although this approach has dominated social policy since the 1950s, it has been undermined by the argument that redistributive social welfare expends scarce resources on unproductive social services, maintains needy people in dependency, and stifles economic growth. Faced with need for ne…
Introduction
Although the notion of developmental welfare is not new, it is only in recent times that its central premises have again attracted attention in social policy circles. Since developmental welfare offers an opportunity to challenge the neo‐liberal claim that social expenditures harm the economy, and that economic development requires retrenchments in state welfare, more information about this approach is needed. This article discusses the developme…
Social Capital and Local Economic Development
Although the concept of social capital has direct relevance to community practice, it is not widely known in social work. This paper defines the concept, traces the development of social capital theory, and examines ways in which community social workers can promote local economic development by enhancing social capital. It contends that community social workers can make a major contribution to local economic development by implementing projects …
Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development
Although indigenous community-based welfare practices have historically promoted social well-being in African communities, their contribution has seldom been recognized. Because these practices play a major role in social development, they should be more effectively integrated with formal social development programs. Three examples of community-based social development innovations in Southern African countries, which integrate traditional coopera…
Industrialization and Welfare
Established theories of welfare and industrialization have been abstracted from the historical experience of the Western countries and no attempt has been made to assess their empirical validity with reference to the newly industrializing countries (NICs) of the Third World. Reviewing the industrial development and social services of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan (the four little tigers) it is argued that social policy development in the…
The Developmental Perspective in Social Work
The developmental perspective is attracting more attention today as conventional residual and institutional approaches to social welfare lose appeal. This article explains the need to adopt a developmental perspective, traces its history, describes its key features, and outlines implications for social work education with reference to the educational needs of a new century
Involving Social Work in Economic Development
Microenterprise, global poverty and social development
English Microenterprise and microfinance are widely promoted today as comprising an important anti-poverty strategy. While they have a role to play, this article shows that claims about their successes are exagge rated. It concludes that these programmes are most effective when incorporated into a wider set of social development policies and programmes specifically designed to address the problem of global poverty. French Micro-entreprise et micr…
Global inequality, power and the unipolar world
English Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, neoconservative intellectuals and policy makers have promoted a unipolarist position which prescribes a new, unilateral role for the government of the United States in world affairs. This article discusses the concept of unipolarism and examines its implications for global inequality, social welfare and social work. French Aprè s l’effondrement de l’Union Soviétique, les intellectuels néoconserv…
Poor Law Principles and Social Assistance in the Third World
Perspectives on Globalization, Social Justice and Welfare
Although the social science literature on globalization has proliferated, social policy and social work scholars have not adequately debated the consequences of globalization for social welfare and social justice. Drawing on different social science interpretations of globalization, four major perspectives that offer different analytical and normative insights into globalization are identified and their implications for social welfare and social …
Special Issue
Development has been a dominant theme of the 20th century. Unlike in any other period of history, the idea that economic devel-opment can raise standards of living and promote social progress is
The United States
It has long been claimed that social welfare programmes harm economic development. These programmes, it is alleged, depress work incentives, divert scarce investment resources to ‘unproductive’ social services and create a large underclass of dependent individuals. Welfare reform in the United States intends to reverse these allegedly negative economic effects by requiring welfare clients to work. It also hopes to reduce poverty. This article exa…
Social work and the radical right
Social assistance
Social work, religion and the global challenge of fundamentalism
The New Christian Right, Social Policy and the Welfare State
While the campaigns of the New Christian Right on abortion, affirmative action, school prayer and other issues have been well documented, little is known about the movement's attitude towards state welfare programs. Identifying three distinctive sources of fundamentalist antipathy to the welfare state, this paper seeks to draw attention to interesting although unconventional ideas about social welfare that should be recognized and understood by s…
Religion, Politics and Social Policy
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Social Welfare Implications of Development Paradigms
Although academic enquiry into development processes and conditions in Third World countries has produced a substantive body of theory, the implications for social welfare have not been properly examined. An analysis of the tenets of modernization theory, the dependency school, and classical Marxism suggests that, in spite of their concern with progress, these paradigms do not provide an adequate basis for social welfare policy in the Third World…
Local Initiative and the Role of Government in Community Development—Policy Implications of a Study in Sierra Leone
Developmental Roles for Social Work in the Third World
Many social workers today are critical of what they regard as their profession's conventional concern with remedial social welfare. This criticism has been voiced with special reference to developing countries, and some social workers have suggested alternative roles for social work in the third world. Among these it has been suggested that social workers should take prime responsibility for social development planning in the developing countries…
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty in South Africa
Journal Article PUBLIC OPINION AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN SOUTH AFRICA Get access JAMES MIDGLEY JAMES MIDGLEY *Lecturer in social adminstration, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 4, October 1974, Pages 345–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046588 Published: 01 October 1974
Two Studies of the Politics of Penal Change in South Africa
Local Initiative and the Role of Government in Community Development—Policy Implications of a Study in Sierra Leone
Developmental Roles for Social Work in the Third World
Many social workers today are critical of what they regard as their profession's conventional concern with remedial social welfare. This criticism has been voiced with special reference to developing countries, and some social workers have suggested alternative roles for social work in the third world. Among these it has been suggested that social workers should take prime responsibility for social development planning in the developing countries…
Training Social Planners for Social Development
Professional Imperialism
Development Planning in the Third World
The Social Dimensions of Development
This textbook provides basic information on social policies aimes at improving the welfare of the populations in developing countried and assessing the effectiveness of the major social policies which have been applied to the problems of poverty in these countried. The book is an outgrowth of experience gained in teaching a course in social policy and planning at London School of Economics. The focus is on social policied rather than on social pl…
Social Welfare Implications of Development Paradigms
Although academic enquiry into development processes and conditions in Third World countries has produced a substantive body of theory, the implications for social welfare have not been properly examined. An analysis of the tenets of modernization theory, the dependency school, and classical Marxism suggests that, in spite of their concern with progress, these paradigms do not provide an adequate basis for social welfare policy in the Third World…
Poor Law Principles and Social Assistance in the Third World
Social assistance
Diffusion and the Development of Social Policy
Comparative studies of the origins of statutory welfare services have focused largely on the role of intra-societal factors in the genesis of welfare in the industrial countries. Developments in the developing countries, which comprise the majority of the world's nations, have not been adequately researched nor has the role of diffusion in transmitting social policies and practices been properly assessed. A review of the growth of modern social w…
Industrialization and Welfare
Established theories of welfare and industrialization have been abstracted from the historical experience of the Western countries and no attempt has been made to assess their empirical validity with reference to the newly industrializing countries (NICs) of the Third World. Reviewing the industrial development and social services of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan (the four little tigers) it is argued that social policy development in the…
Social work, religion and the global challenge of fundamentalism
The New Christian Right, Social Policy and the Welfare State
While the campaigns of the New Christian Right on abortion, affirmative action, school prayer and other issues have been well documented, little is known about the movement's attitude towards state welfare programs. Identifying three distinctive sources of fundamentalist antipathy to the welfare state, this paper seeks to draw attention to interesting although unconventional ideas about social welfare that should be recognized and understood by s…
Development Policies
Development Policies
Unlike other social scientists, sociologists have not been closely involved in formulating development policies for the Third World nor in their implementation. This volume challenges such a disengaged stance and demonstrates ways in which a sociological perspective can strengthen policy-making. Apart from raising general issues of principle, the book examines sociological involvement in foreign aid, social research, community participation, wome…
Religion, Politics and Social Policy
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The Religious Right's Challenge to Progressive Social Concerns
During the 1980s, the Christian Right became a significant force in American politics, and despite having experienced setbacks, its agenda has not been abandoned. Describing the movement's opposition to three progressive social causes (state welfare, civil rights, and moral choice), progressives are urged to respond to the challenge
Introduction
With the retirement of Ronald Reagan from active political life; the long term effects of his policies and programs need to be addressed. This introduction to fire special issue on The Reagan Legacy and the. American Welfare State draws on the findings of the various contributors t"' provide an overview of the impact of Reagan administration's policies on various facets of the welfare stale, and an assessment of their likely longer term effects
Society, Social Policy and the Ideology of Reaganism
The complex historical and ideological themes which formed the basis for Reaganism in the 1980s are based on economic individualism, traditionalism and authoritarian populism. By creating an ideological formation which appealed to a wide constituency, right-wing activists sought to reverse the centrist consensus liberalism of the New Deal. These ideas also informed the Reagan administration’s social policies and, although not implemented as inten…
Social work and the radical right
Toward a Developmental Model of Social Policy
Growing dissatisfaction with conventional social policy approaches, as embodied in the residual and institutional models, has fostered a search for new ideas. The developmental social policy model offers a viable alternative but it is relatively unknown in the industrial nations. Drawing on the experience of Third World countries, this paper describes the developmental model and examines its implications for social policy in the West
New Themes in International Social Welfare
This introductory article provides a brief overview of developments in international social welfare paying particular attention to the major themes which have characterized the field. It summarizes the new themes reflected in the contributions to the special issue, noting that they are indicative of future directions for international social welfare investigation
Involving Social Work in Economic Development
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