Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State
This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial support. State policies on security rest on perceptions of two other institutions, the family and insurance, both of which are subject to change. At one time the extended family was seen as a major security-providing institution, but the contemporary nuclear family is more fragile. The concept of insurance originally entailed ideas of community and mutual aid; however, the institution has developed, in its modern private form, as a profit-driven entity. This book addresses various uses of state power in providing security for individuals, and outlines different ways in which this can be done.
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Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State
This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial support. State policies on security rest on perceptions of two other institutions, the family and insurance, both of which are subject to change. At one time the extended family was seen as a major security-providing institution, but the contemporary nuclear family is more fragile. The concept of insurance originally entailed ideas of community and mutual aid; however, the institution has developed, in its modern private form, as a profit-driven entity. This book addresses various uses of state power in providing security for individuals, and outlines different ways in which this can be done.
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Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State

Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State

by Carol Weisbrod
Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State
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Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State

Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State

by Carol Weisbrod

Overview

This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial support. State policies on security rest on perceptions of two other institutions, the family and insurance, both of which are subject to change. At one time the extended family was seen as a major security-providing institution, but the contemporary nuclear family is more fragile. The concept of insurance originally entailed ideas of community and mutual aid; however, the institution has developed, in its modern private form, as a profit-driven entity. This book addresses various uses of state power in providing security for individuals, and outlines different ways in which this can be done.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351157025
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/28/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 158
File size: 552 KB

About the Author

Carol Weisbrod

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Pillars of security; Security through the family; Security through insurance; Security through the State; Security and individualism; Conclusion; Index.
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