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Citizenship and Social Rights

Name: Citizenship and Social Rights
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SKU: 9780803986145
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTDISBN: 9780803986145

The Interdependence of Self and Society

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By Fred Twine
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 208

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This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive analysis of the possibilities and limitations of the idea of citizenship, and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies. Fred Twine demonstrates that two concepts are essential to an understanding of the issue of citizenship: the socially embedded nature of human agents, and their interdependence with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit. In contrast to the glorification of a presumed free-floating consumer, Twine emphasises the social nature of individual needs and individual rights. He also shows that interdependence is not limited to the mutual linkages within advanced industrial societies, but extends both to the relations between developed and developing nations, and to the environmental contexts of human existence. Showing how a truly social vision of citizenship offers ways in which human worlds are socially created, and can be re-created, Citizenship and Social Rights will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, social policy, politics and philosophy.

Fred Twine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen.

PART ONE: SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE: A BASIS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS Self and Society The Development of the `Social Self' Labour Markets and Interdependence The Kinds of People We Are Able To Be Lifecourse Interdependence The Social Connections and Networks of Life PART TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL INTERDEPENDENCE The Sustainability of the Means to Life GNP and the Mis-measure of Progress Externalities Environmental and Social Costs PART THREE: A POLITICS OF REDISTRIBUTION, SUFFICIENCY AND PARTICIPATION Redistribution and Sufficiency Political Participation Beyond and Below the Nation State PART FOUR: EXPLORING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL RIGHTS Social Exclusion and Social Rights The Social Rights of Citizenship Sources of Income and Forms of Taxation Welfare State Regimes PART FIVE: TOWARDS EUROPEAN SOCIAL RIGHTS Social Citizenship in Europe The European Social Charter A Basic Income An Embodiment of Social Rights? PART SIX: CITIZENSHIP: UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION The Sociological Imagination Having and Being

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