Social Theory and Social Policy
Choice, Order and Human Well-being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-170 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431005051761 |
| OpenAlex | W2152554715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 78 |
This article contends that social policy faces a crisis over whether a viable collective order can be constructed out of individual choices. The neo-liberal paradigm is now challenged by neo-conservatives, who argue for policies derived from traditional moral, religious and patriotic values. This raises issues about the nature of social bonds, the institutional order and collective life itself. The article argues that it provides an opportunity for social theorists and policy analysts to co-operate in re-examining these questions. However, these debates indicate a need for social theorists to confront their relationship with Enlightenment accounts of how commerce and private property enable liberty and consensual government. In the face of recent evidence of 'stalled well-being' within increasing prosperity, the article argues for a new analysis of choice and solidarity
Economics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Prosperity · Social order · Social policy · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Evidence-Based Policy
Sixty years of change in the fields of stratification and collective violence
The Quasi-Market Revolution in the Head
A comparison of programs for the delivery of rehabilitation services in Australia, Canada and Britain
Literature or Science
Epilogue in Eight Essays
Civic Altruism and Social Policy
National Insurance Local Tribunals
The Other T. H. Marshall
Decentring Social Policy? Devolution and the Discipline of Social Policy
The stigma of claiming benefits
Social Conscience and Social Policy
Social administration and sociology
Robert Pinker, the Idea of Welfare and the Study of Social Policy
Social Values and Social Policy
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
From Poor Law to Positive Discrimination
Spencer's Future of Welfare
New Disability Services
The Social Consequences of Australian Disasters
Ambiguous exchanges and the police
Social Values, Social Class and Social Policy
Destinations of Social Administration Graduates
The Changing Face of Social Administration
The Idea of Welfare
Self‐service Society
On welfare pluralism, social policy and the contribution of sociology
Reforming Social Justice in Neoliberal Times
Categories of need, welfare stigma, and their combined effect on non-take-up of targeted income support in Hong Kong
Well‐being
New Labour
Children and Poverty Why their experience of their lives matter for policy
Migration and Work in the United Kingdom
Pragmatism and the Capability Approach
Resources and Norms as Conditions for Well-Being in Hong Kong
The voice and the eye
Risk Society
A theory of poverty and social exclusion
The Theory of choice
Happiness and Economics
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
Social Limits to Growth
Classics in the Theory of Public Finance
Bureaucrats and Politicians
Bowling alone
An Essay on Fiscal Federalism
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Inventing our Selves
The Calculus of Consent
The Rise and Decline of Nations
The ethics of welfareHuman rights, dependency and responsibility
The New Politics of Welfare
The Will to Empower
The ethics of welfare
Welfare States in Transition
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
The Second Treatise of Government
Modernity and Self-Identity
Legislators and interpreters
The reinvention of politics
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies
Guild Socialism Restated
Telling Sexual Stories
The Logic of Collective Action
Sociology of Postmodernism
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
The Will to Empower
The Logic of Practice
The viability of advanced welfare states in the international economy. Vulnerabilities and options
World Poverty and Human Rights
Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government
World Poverty and Human Rights
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Explaining technical change
An Economic Theory of Clubs
Happiness, Economy and Institutions
Subjective well-being
Risk society
How institutions think
Social Theory and Social Structure
The condition of postmodernity
Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint
The Effects of Metropolitan Economic Segregation on Local Civic Participation
Social Theory and Social Structure
Subjective well-being
The Postmodern Condition
Sociology and Postmodernity
Modernity versus Postmodernity
The Condition of Postmodernity
Explaining Technical Change
The Passions and the Interests
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Postmodernism as Social Theory
Is there a Postmodern Sociology
In Pursuit of the Postmodern
Inventiveness in politics
Postmodern Social Policy
Postmodernism, Welfare and Radical Politics
Postmodernism and Social Policy
Postmodernism and Social Policy
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2025 (54) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |