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HISTORIES AND IDEOLOGIES OF WELFARE Ideology is a system and ideas, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy (oxford dictionary). Everybody has his/her own ideology, they are our own systems of believe that shape and structure the way we see the world, and make judgment about it, and each individual’s ideological perspectives is different and unique. Individual ideologies are both capital and prescriptive; we know what is wrong with what we see and we know what should be done about it. As a result of this they are therefore partial and value laden; we do not know or understand everything but we do know what we like and what we don’t like. In the discussion of ideologies of welfare, George and Wilding (1994) discussed this point and argued that major ideological perspective must possess certain characteristics in order to be regarded as of social importance. They outlined four such characteristics;
1. Coherence; Ideological perspective must have an internal logic and theoretical consistency.
2. Pervasiveness; Ideological perspective must be current and relevant, as old perspectives may have not their social base.
3. Extensiveness; Ideological perspective must be wildly shared within and across society.
4. Intensiveness; Ideological perspective must command the support, and commitment of these who shared them; they must really be believed. Therefore an ideological perspective is a shared view, or set of view, with a clear social impact of course not all ideological perspectives forces on, or even address SOCIAL POLICY issues; indeed most do not. We are not concerned here, however with all ideologies, but only with those that do address welfare issues and focus on description and judgment, of policy development and prescription for future policy reform. These we can call ideologies of welfare. Having discuss the ideologies of welfare let