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Social Change, Social Welfare and Social Science argues that the case against the welfare state is not proven and explores the reasons why social science in the 1980s and 1990s has devalued state welfare as yesterday's future. The book goes on to demonstrate that a forceful case for the welfare state can be made

THE AUTHOR DEVELOPS A RAWLSIAN ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES' EXISTING SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM. AFTER A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM, HE DISCUSSES RAWLS'S ARGUMENTS THAT AN IDEALLY JUST INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY WOULD INCLUDE, AMONG ITS BASIC INSTITUTIONS, A UNIVERSAL NONCONTRIBUTORY SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM. THEN HE DEVELOPS A VARIETY OF QUASI-RAWLSIAN ARGUMENTS FOR A SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAM. FINALLY, HE USES THESE ARGUMENTS TO CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE CURRENT AMERICAN SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM AND SOME PROPOSED REFORMS.

The trouble with the ways morality is used and how they impede social equality and social justice / Elliot Turiel -- The moral judgment of the child reevaluated : heteronomy, early morality, and reasoning about social justice and inequalities / Charles C. Helwig -- America's Head Start program : an effort for social justice / Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco -- Affirmative action and ethnic minority university students : enlarging pipelines to support success / Joel Gills, Kristina Schmukler, Margarita Azmitia, and Faye Crosby -- The biology of social justice : linking social inequalities and health in adolescence / Elizabeth Goodman and Nancy E. Adler -- Leaving LGBT students behind : schools, sexuality, and rights / Stacey Horn -- The development of stereotype threat : consequences for educational and social equality / Catherine Good and Joshua Aronson -- Honour, truth, and justice / by Unni Wikan -- In defense of universal values / Martha Nussbaum