Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship: Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain

ISBN-13: 9781447337461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Daniel Edmiston

Opis

Offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor across the UK, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it.

Spis treści

Introduction Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry? Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality Conclusion