Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship

ISBN-13: 9780367322373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str.

Marlon Barbehon; Marilena Geugjes; Michael Haus

Opis

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to investigate how the middle class becomes a meaningful object of public debates and policy-making.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Middle Class: A Constructivist Perspective  2. Middle Class and Social and Political Theory: Old Heritage, Contemporary Variations  3. Middle Class and Theory of the Welfare State: Meanings of Welfare, Overlapping Consensus, and Target Group Constructions  4. Different Welfare Regimes, Different Middle Classes: On Methodology and Methods  5. Sweden: The Egalitarian Understanding of the Middle Class  6. Germany: The Conservative-Communitarian Understanding of the Middle Class  7. United Kingdom: The Libertarian-Multicultural Understanding of the Middle Class  8. Conclusion