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West Virginia University

1988

Social Welfare

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Social Welfare In The Emerging World Culture, Roger A. Lohmann Nov 1988

Social Welfare In The Emerging World Culture, Roger A. Lohmann

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The end of the cold war brought with it a new period of globalization and an emerging world cultural consensus in which social welfare values of the welfare state figure importantly. An essential element of this development has been indigenization in which universal social welfare values, like those on display at various United Nations agencies and in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights are adapted and fitted to the unique demands and requirements of individual cultures.