Ideology and Social Welfare

George, Vic; Wilding, Paul

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“…Gray and Coates, 2010;Midgley, 1981) are mainly concerned about the mainstream culture in both Western and indigenous societies. For example, when Midgley (1981) questioned individualism, humanitarianism, liberalism, the work ethic and capitalism unrestricted by government intervention as valued by the Western founders of social work, he tended to overlook other non-mainstream cultures such as collectivism, social democracy and Marxism (Eckstein, 2001;George and Wilding, 1994) in Western societies. In indigenous societies such as mainland China, the proponents of indigenization (Tsang et al, 2001;Wang, 2001) were mainly concerned about mainstream culture such as collectivism and Confucianism.…”

Section: The Perception Of Western and Indigenous Culturesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Further discussion of indigenization in social work: A response to Gray and Coates

Huang

Xiong²

2011

International Social Work

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This article responds to Gray's (2010) and Gray and Coates' (2010) responses to A Reflection on Indigenization Discourse in Social Work (Huang and Zhang, 2008), and presents further discussion of indigenization in social work. We indicate that it is an inherent professional requirement for social workers to use different ways to understand local contexts and to do locally relevant research and practice. We extend to address some points of indigenization from the Chinese perspective. The problems with the emphasis on culture in indigenization are also discussed. It is suggested that indigenization is likely to bring harm to social work.

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Section: The Perception Of Western and Indigenous Culturesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Further discussion of indigenization in social work: A response to Gray and Coates

Huang

Xiong²

2011

International Social Work

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“…Th ere is strong support for Migdal's perspective in the 'institutional approach', which is based on the social confl ict model of society (George and Wilding 1990;Rex 1961). According to the institutional approach, society consists of classes and groups with confl icting interests, and social policy measures are fundamentally the result of confl icts between various social forces in society.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Th is article uses Migdal's (1988Migdal's ( , 1994Migdal's ( , 2001) 'state-in-society' perspective and the 'institutional approach' (George and Wilding 1990;Rex 1961) as a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between political stability and welfare. Our decision to combine these perspectives allows us to foreground the importance of both social norms and social confl ict.…”

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Welfare as a Means for Political Stability: A Law and Society Analysis

Svensson¹,

Urinboyev²,

Åström³

2012

European Journal of Social Security

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Welfare as a means for political stability : a law and society analysisSvensson, Måns; Urinboyev, Rustam; Åström, Karsten General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

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“…The notion of citizenship provides an organizing feature that reconciles collective rights and ideals with individual rights and responsibilities (Lister, 2003;Turner, 2001). Marshall's (1950) citizenship framework incorporates Fabian socialist notions of equality, freedom and fellowship in what became the principal paradigm of the post-Second World War period (George & Wilding, 1985;Lister, 2003Lister, , 2010Williams, 1989). Marshall's ideas were presented in 1949 during a series of lectures at Cambridge University and then published in 1950…”

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The Politics of Austerity and Social Citizenship Rights: A Case Study of the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Welfare State in Portugal

Duarte¹

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This dissertation focuses on the process and degree of welfare retrenchment under the paradigm of austerity following the 2008 financial crisis. It provides a detailed account of the austerity measures on cash benefits of social citizenship rights -minimum income, unemployment insurance and old-age pensions -adopted in Portugal between 2010 and 2014. This dissertation also offers a comprehensive framework for defining the rights of social citizenship in 21 st century capitalist market economies derived from two theoretical approaches: Marshall's social citizenship framework and Esping-Andersen's approach on welfare provision and redistribution. The author puts forward the thesis that the austerity measures adopted in Portugal between 2010 and 2014 have considerably eroded the degree of decommodification of the public welfare provision of cash benefits which are part of social citizenship rights in Portugal. It is argued that the reduction in public spending and the cumulative effect of multiple policy changes in exchange for a €78 billion financial bailout were very damaging to the entitlements of social protection. Furthermore, the dissertation also confirms that EU policies of balanced budgets that constitutionalize lower public deficits undermine the constitutional principles of social citizenship fulfillment between the state and its citizens. The austerity measures, either proposed or fully adopted by the Portuguese authorities between 2010 and 2014, were based on certain ideological assumptions and economic beliefs that do not serve the interests of the most vulnerable and working-class people. The recommendations explore both directions for policy, as well as for future research. A more egalitarian redistribution of cash benefits for citizens from European member states within the Eurozone, like Portugal, is being proposed because questions of public debt, sustainability of public expenditure, inflation, budgetary consolidation and unemployment, will continue to arise within the European Union.ii

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Ideology and Social Welfare

Cited by 41 publications

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Further discussion of indigenization in social work: A response to Gray and Coates

Further discussion of indigenization in social work: A response to Gray and Coates

Welfare as a Means for Political Stability: A Law and Society Analysis

The Politics of Austerity and Social Citizenship Rights: A Case Study of the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Welfare State in Portugal

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