Understanding Human Need 2e. Dean, Hartley

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       Detailed contents

      1Introduction

Why is need important?

Outline of the book

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

       Part One: Understandings and concepts

      2The needs of humanity

Human history

Humanisms

       Species characteristics

Conclusion/Summary

Challenging questions

      3The thin and the thick of need and needing

The distinction between ‘thin’ and ‘thick’

Thin needs and hedonic notions of well-being

Thick needs and eudaimonic notions of well-being

       Dignity and caring

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

      4Needs in theory

       Classic human individualist theories

       Social policy perspectives

       Critical perspectives

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

      5Needs in practice

       Customs and consumption

       Social policy perspectives

       Insurgent claims making

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

      6Human need and social policy

       A taxonomy of needs-based approaches

       Human needs and welfare ‘regimes’

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

       Part Two: Implications and debates

      7Unmet needs and social disadvantage

       Poverty and inequality: the distribution and accumulation of material resources

       Exclusion and misrecognition: the construction and demarcation of social divisions

       Dehumanisation: processes of alienation, oppression and exploitation

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

      8Articulating needs as rights

       Rights-based approaches

       Reconceptualising social citizenship

       Justice or humanity?

       Conclusion/Summary

       Challenging questions

      9The politics of human need

       Reprise

       A different politics of demand

       A needs-first ethic

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