Consumerism
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Social Work
- Vol. 47 (4) , 533-542
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872804046259
Abstract
The European trend away from welfare statism and towards consumerism is usually regarded as a shift from social development to social delimitation. However, consumerism has the potential to promote procedural rights, to be responsive to individual needs and to treat service users as rational agents.Keywords
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