SOCI 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Capital, Advantageous, Medicalization

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How to design a liberal welfares tate: a comparison of canada and the united. Aim: to show how the difference in the programmatic design of two otherwise liberal welfare regimes have generated substantially different patterns of welfare state retrenchment and distributive outcomes since the. 1970s welfare regimes: distinguished by principles and rules that regulate the institutions from which citizens get their welfare in a modern capitalist society (state, market and family). *** useful because it turns our attention from the narrow world of social spending to the larger institutional complex in which this social spending takes place. Conservative wealthier take care of themselves maintains structural inequalities your family should take care of you. Social democratic the state - emphasizes equality over preservation of status differences. Liberal no one takes care of anyone - individualistic and capitalistic individual welfare: market control - private industry - business takes care of people characterized by a preference for market based solutions.