SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF WELFARE

Abstract

Questions of the form ‘what is “x”?’ raise their heads from time to time, and are often very important. Whether the question is ‘what is virtue?’ or ‘what is sociology?’ the search is on for something fundamental. At least one philosopher seems to have handled that most awkward of ‘what is “x”?’ questions ‘what is philosophy?’ with both humour and wisdom: ‘The story is told that the preferred response of G.E. Moore was to gesture towards his bookshelves: “It is what all these are about”’ (reported in Flew, 1979, p.vii). Indeed, the form in which the answers come to many of these questions has been of direct concern to philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein, including Moore himself.

Citation

Offer, J. (1990), "SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF WELFARE", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 15-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013083