1st Edition

Grounding Security Family, Insurance and the State

By Carol Weisbrod Copyright 2006
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

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

Biography

Carol Weisbrod