Citizenship and Social Rights
The Interdependence of Self and Society
- Fred Twine - University of Aberdeen, UK
September 1994 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This broad-ranging text offers an analysis of the idea of citizenship and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies.
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 both with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit. Twine emphasizes the social nature of individual needs and individual rights. He shows that interdependence is not limited to the mutual linkages within advanced industrial societies, but extends both to the relations between advanced and developing nations and to the environmental contexts of human existence.
PART ONE: SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE: A BASIS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS
Self and Society
Labour Markets and Interdependence
Lifecourse Interdependence
PART TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL INTERDEPENDENCE
The Sustainability of the Means to Life
GNP and the Mis-measure of Progress
Externalities
PART THREE: A POLITICS OF REDISTRIBUTION, SUFFICIENCY AND PARTICIPATION
Redistribution and Sufficiency
Political Participation
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
A Basic Income
PART SIX: CITIZENSHIP: UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION
The Sociological Imagination
Having and Being