Description
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.
Chapter
WELFARE, INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP
List of tables and figures
Welfare austerity: perjury, punishment and destitution
Towards an explanatory account of ‘unequal citizenship’
Book overview and research design
2. Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare
Towards neoliberal citizenship: your risk, your reward
The new social divisions and distributional effects of public welfare
Citizenship status and identity: validation and contingency
3. Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain
Area deprivation and affluence
The material and symbolic significance of inequality
4. The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens
Welfare attitudes and inequality: knowledge and attitude formation
The ‘deserving workless poor’: Becky
The ‘undeserving workless poor’: Aimee
The ‘deserving working poor’: James
The ‘undeserving working rich’: Robert
Structure versus agency: explaining attitudinal divergence
5. Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities
Claiming versus earning the social rights of citizenship
Conceiving and enacting responsible citizenship
Resistance and resignation to the prevailing citizenship configuration
From welfare deficits to institutional disengagement?
6. Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry?
Identity, difference and liberal citizenship
Citizenship and the gendered division of (care) labour
Citizenship, race and place
Universalism versus particularism
The warp and weft of collective (dis-) identification
7. Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality
Poor debate: entrenched attitudes towards poverty and inequality
Galvanising public opinion towards socially inclusive ends
The rise of anti-social citizenship?
Implications for welfare policy and politics
Appendix:
Details of the qualitative fieldwork
Welfare, inequality and social citizenship
：Deprivation and affluence in austerity Britain
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