Welfare Deservingness And The Logic Of Poverty

Author : Joe Whelan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527567542

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Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty by Joe Whelan Pdf

Who deserves to get what and what should they have to do in order to get it? These are questions that societies have grappled with since antiquity, and they continue to echo today. This book explores questions of social deservingness by tracking how it has been treated across the centuries, from ancient Greece to the present day, taking in many notable thinkers along the way. In doing so, it focuses, in particular, on what different thinkers have had to say on and about poor relief and social welfare. Modern welfare systems are also examined to show how particular logics of poverty, while they may be ancient in origin, continue to inform our notions of who deserves to get what today. This book will be of interest to those studying or working in the areas of social welfare, social policy and sociology.

Author : Wim van Oorschot,Femke Roosma,Bart Meuleman,Tim Reeskens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785367212

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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare by Wim van Oorschot,Femke Roosma,Bart Meuleman,Tim Reeskens Pdf

This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides an up-to-date state of the art in terms of concepts, theories, research methods and data. The book offers a multi-disciplinary view on deservingness attitudes, with contributions from sociology, political science, media studies and social psychology. It links up with central welfare state debates about the allocation of collective resources between groups with particular needs, and wider categories of need.

Author : Christian Albrekt Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027492

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The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes by Christian Albrekt Larsen Pdf

Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy? And conversely, why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support it? These core questions lie at the heart of this intriguing book. By examining how different welfare regimes influence public support for welfare policy, the book explores the institutional settings of different regimes and how each produces its own support. While previous studies in this field have failed to link the macro-structure of welfare regimes and the micro-structure of welfare attitudes, this book redresses this problem by combining welfare regime theory and literature on deservingness criteria alongside empirical evidence from national and cross-national data. While recent trends in welfare state development such as cuts in benefit levels and increased use of targeting, combined with increased immigration, might very well influence our perceptions of the deservingness of the needy, this book provides a strong, convincing and provoking argument that challenges the micro-foundation of present comparative welfare state theory. The result is an important work for all studying and working in the fields of public policy and social welfare.

Author : Tijs Laenen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839101892

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Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy by Tijs Laenen Pdf

This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between the two, exploring the close correspondence between public opinion and public policy that has been present throughout the history of social welfare.

Author : Joe Whelan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360926

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Hidden Voices by Joe Whelan Pdf

Welfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.

Author : Joel F. Handler,Ellen Jane Hollingsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 0123228557

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The Deserving Poor by Joel F. Handler,Ellen Jane Hollingsworth Pdf

Author : Laura Tarkiainen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 1032127082

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Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice by Laura Tarkiainen Pdf

"This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies"--

Author : Sabina Pultz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031571565

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Emotionally Indebted by Sabina Pultz Pdf

Author : Joel F. Handler,Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139461160

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Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality by Joel F. Handler,Yeheskel Hasenfeld Pdf

With the passage of the 1996 welfare reform, not only welfare, but poverty and inequality have disappeared from the political discourse. The decline in the welfare rolls has been hailed as a success. This book challenges that assumption. It argues that while many single mothers left welfare, they have joined the working poor, and fail to make a decent living. The book examines the persistent demonization of poor single-mother families; the impact of the low-wage market on perpetuating poverty and inequality; and the role of the welfare bureaucracy in defining deserving and undeserving poor. It argues that the emphasis on family values - marriage promotion, sex education and abstinence - is misguided and diverts attention from the economic hardships low-income families face. The book proposes an alternative approach to reducing poverty and inequality that centers on a children's allowance as basic income support coupled with jobs and universal child care.

Author : David Harding,Michele Lamont,Mario Luis Small
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412988971

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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty by David Harding,Michele Lamont,Mario Luis Small Pdf

Culture has returned to the poverty research agenda. Over the past decade, sociologists, demographers, and even economists have begun asking questions about the role of culture in many aspects of poverty, at times even explaining the behavior of low-income populations in reference to cultural factors. Unlike their predecessors, contemporary researchers rarely claim that culture will sustain itself for multiple generations regardless of structural changes, and they almost never use the term "pathology," which implied in an earlier era that people would cease to be poor if they changed their culture. The new generation of scholars conceives of culture in substantially different ways. In this latest issue of the ANNALS, readers are treated to thought-provoking articles that attempt to bridge the gap between poverty and culture scholarship, highlighting new trends in poverty research. This volume is vital reading, not only for sociologists but also for researchers across the social sciences as a whole.

Author : Tijs Laenen,Bart Meuleman,Wim van Oorschot
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788976305

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Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity by Tijs Laenen,Bart Meuleman,Wim van Oorschot Pdf

Has there been change or continuity in the welfare attitudes of Europeans since the 2008 financial crisis? Using data from the European Social Survey, this book reveals how various types of welfare attitudes evolved between 2008, when the crisis triggered economic recessions and welfare reforms across Europe, and 2016, when most countries had largely recovered from that crisis.

Author : Mara A. Yerkes,Michèlle Bal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030937959

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Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies by Mara A. Yerkes,Michèlle Bal Pdf

This textbook will familiarize readers with some of the most pressing solidarity and social justice issues in contemporary societies. Ongoing and emerging inequalities along the lines of gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic background, and sexual orientation challenge the solidarity underlying societies, resulting in complex questions of social justice. Moreover, several global challenges, such as digitalization, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge solidarity and social justice in new ways. How do societies respond to these enduring, growing or changing inequalities? Do these challenges lead to an expansion or an erosion of solidarity, in an 'us versus them' rhetoric? And to what extent do societies differ in their social justice values and hence the acceptance of social inequality? Taking a sociological, psychological, and political philosophical approach to these topics, this book offers state-of-the art theoretical and empirical contributions from globally-recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and political philosophy, providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding solidarity and social justice in response to social inequalities in contemporary European societies.

Author : Stephen Haymes,Maria Vidal de Haymes,Reuben Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317627395

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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States by Stephen Haymes,Maria Vidal de Haymes,Reuben Miller Pdf

In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the context of globalization. Reorienting its national economy towards a global logic, US domestic policies have promoted a market-based strategy of economic development and growth as the obvious solution to alleviating poverty, affecting approaches to the problem discursively, politically, economically, culturally and experientially. However, the handbook explores how rather than alleviating poverty, it has instead exacerbated poverty and pre-existing inequalities – privatizing the services of social welfare and educational institutions, transforming the state from a benevolent to a punitive state, and criminalizing poor women, racial and ethnic minorities, and immigrants. Key issues examined by the international selection of leading scholars in this volume include: income distribution, employment, health, hunger, housing and urbanization. With parts focusing on the lived experience of the poor, social justice and human rights frameworks – as opposed to welfare rights models – and the role of helping professions such as social work, health and education, this comprehensive handbook is a vital reference for anyone working with those in poverty, whether directly or at a macro level.

Author : Sanford Schram
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816625786

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Words of Welfare by Sanford Schram Pdf

It has been suggested that policy analysis has come to serve the needs of the state at the expense of the citizens. This book offers a critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the USA, illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them.

Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780199672660

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The Welfare State by David Garland Pdf

This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.