Reassembling Social Security

Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199233772
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reassembling Social Security written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622893
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reassembling the Social written by Bruno Latour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling; and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanations' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion, and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations', has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

Author : Robert Julius Myers
Publisher : ACTEX Publications
ISBN 13 : 1566987660
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within the System written by Robert Julius Myers and published by ACTEX Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven A. Sass
Publisher : Social Security Fix-It Book
ISBN 13 : 0615146015
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Security Fix-It Book written by Steven A. Sass and published by Social Security Fix-It Book. This book was released on 2007 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product DescriptionSocial Security has a long-term financing problem. More of us will soon be collecting benefits with not many more paying taxes to support the program. The Social Security Fix-It book is a short, colorful guide to the program, its financing issues, and the leading proposals for eliminating the shortfall. Cheerfully narrated and easy to read, this book seeks to raise public awareness to achieve a long-lasting solution.About the AuthorAlicia H. Munnell is the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the Peter F. Drucker Professor in Management Sciences at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Steven A. Sass is Associate Director for Research at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Andrew Eschtruth is Associate Director for External Relations at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Author : Paul H. Douglas
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587980558
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security in the United States written by Paul H. Douglas and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608703444
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Security Act written by Richard Worth and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader behind the Social Security Act to show the drama that led to the bill being passed and the effect it had in the development of our country.

Author : Eveline Mabel Burns
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security and Public Policy written by Eveline Mabel Burns and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1956 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanne N. Beechey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349918911
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness written by Susanne N. Beechey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to understand the politics of deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an interpretive policy analysis of the 2005 Social Security privatization debates. What does it mean for politics and policymaking that Social Security recipients are widely viewed as deserving of the benefits they receive? In the 2005 privatization debates, Congress framed Social Security in exclusively positive terms, often in opposition to welfare, and imagined their own beloved family members as recipients. Advocates for private accounts sought to navigate the politics of deservingness by dividing the “we” of social insurance to a “me” of private investment and a “them” of individual rate of return in order to justify the introduction of private accounts into Social Security. Fiscal stress on the program will likely bring Social Security to the policy agenda soon. Understanding the politics of deservingness will be central to navigating those debates.

Author : Rita Ricardo-Campbell
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security written by Rita Ricardo-Campbell and published by Hoover Institution Press Publi. This book was released on 1977 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Rita Ricardo Campbell translates the arcane intricacies of Social Security into terms intelligible to lay readers. She thereby fills the long-standing need for a lucid, up-to-date, authoritative guide to the system. She not only examines the gulf between how the sytem ideally should work and how it actually does work, but also offers incisive, realistic proposals for overdue reforms. Social Security is a subject no one can afford to ignore or fail to understand. At its inception the maximum tax per person was $60 per year; today its almost $2,000. Thirty-two million individuals currently receive benefits, and 90 percent of the workforce pays Social Security taxes; nearly one-half pay more in social security than in federal income tax. For those who seek an intelligent analysis of Social Security Campbell's book will be welcome and invaluable.

Author : W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521328661
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security written by W. Andrew Achenbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Roosevelt envisioned social security to be the cornerstone 'for the kind of protection America wants' from the financial troubles people faced due to old age and family tragedies. By fulfilling its initial promise, social security has evolved into the nation's largest, costliest, and most successful domestic institution. But the optimistic assumptions that inspired its incremental expansion have dissipated in the face of demographic, political, economic, and cultural shifts in American society. Social Security: Visions and Revisions encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers alike to think more broadly and boldly about social security and its relation to public assistance and other income-maintenance and health-care programs. Pulling together information and insights previously scattered and fragmentary, this 1986 book draws lessons from the past that free us of outdated assumptions and unexamined shibboleths. The re-vision of social security that Achenbaum advocates should become the basis of all discussions of government's responsibility to promote 'the general welfare' in our ageing society.