The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL HENMAN ◽  
GREG MARSTON
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Electronic Surveillance ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Critical Social

AbstractElectronic surveillance has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite this, surveillance practices and their social products are yet to receive serious attention in the academic field of social policy. Extending Titmuss’ classical articulation of the social division of welfare, this article develops the notion of the social division of welfare surveillance to point to the way in which surveillance, compliance burdens and risk management unevenly operate within society. The implications for reinforcing social divisions and critical social policy analysis are discussed.

Analyses in the Social Division of Welfare

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Sinfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Division ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Differential Recognition ◽  
Original Essay ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTRichard Titmuss's ‘The Social Division of Welfare’ has been neglected as a framework for assessing changes in social policy and society. The analytical, as opposed to the descriptive, value of the original essay becomes more evident, and more significant, when the relations between the social divisions of labour and welfare are examined in terms of the distribution of benefits and services through the public, fiscal and occupational systems; the growth and differential recognition of needs and ‘man-made’ states of dependency; the variations in the primary objectives of welfare including control; the interrelationship of the different systems and the ways in which they legitimate the existing social structure. This paper seeks to show that, combined with a consideration of power and the state, time and security and the institutions of capitalism, the ideas of the original essay encourage a more dynamic analysis of the impact of the three systems of welfare on society than has so far been attempted.

The evolution of social policy analysis in Ireland: from a theocentric to an econocentric paradigm?

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Fiona Dukelow
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter situates policy analysis within a social policy context and begins by stressing its early theocratic formation. It is an examination of the history of social policy analysis in Ireland since the 1950s, when the country began its journey towards modernity. The chapter reviews the actors and institutions involved and the knowledge deployed as the country moved towards a globalised society with its attendant social policy challenges. Dukelow charts the complexities of social policy analysis under what she characterises as the shift from the dominance of a theocentric paradigm to an econocentric paradigm. This saw the subordinating of the social to the economic valuation of social policy by the 1990s.

Social Policy and Social Justice

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pinker
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
The Social

In this review of the changing relationship between social policy and social justice I will be concerned with three main areas of debate. Firstly, I wish to attempt a clarification of the moral ideals of social welfare which find expression in those criteria of social justice by which people in similar states of need are treated differently. My second concern is to review and redefine what constitutes the social division of welfare in Britain today. Thirdly, I wish to explore the extent to which these ideals of social welfare complement or conflict with one another.

scholarly journals Ageing, corporeality and social divisions in later life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1681-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS GILLEARD ◽  
PAUL HIGGS
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Divide ◽  
The 19Th Century

ABSTRACTThis paper concerns the social divisions of later life. Although research in this field has focused on class, gender and, more recently, sexuality as sources of division in later life, the division between the fit and the frail has tended to be ignored or viewed as an outcome of these other divisions. This paper challenges this assumption, arguing that corporeality constitutes a major social division in later life. This in many ways prefigures a return to the 19th-century categorisation of those ‘impotent through age’, whose position was among the most abject in society. Their ‘impotence’ was framed by an inability to engage in paid labour. Improved living standards during and after working life saw age's impotence fade in significance and in the immediate post-war era, social concern turned towards the relative poverty of pensioners. Subsequent demographic ageing and the expanding cultures of the third age have undermined the homogeneity of retirement. Frailty has become a major source of social division, separating those who are merely older from those who are too old. This division excludes the ‘unsuccessfully’ aged from utilising the widening range of material and social goods that characterise the third age. It is this social divide rather than those of past occupation or income that is becoming a more salient line of fracture in later life.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL RISKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Bilyk Olena
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social State ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Risk Management System ◽  
The Social

The article is devoted to the study of historical aspects of the formation of the social risk management system. The study is based on a deep retrospective analysis that allows to establish the stages of formation of social risk management systems in world practice. This is of fundamental importance for the rationalization of social policy, and within its framework, in particular, the policy of social risk management. The effective functioning of such a system should, in turn, refer to the historical awareness of social risks, the principles of organization of risk communities. According to the author, the study, conducted to describe and explain the attitude to the social risk management system through the prism of the evolution of the social state, aims to establish not only opinions on Social Security through social security systems, the scale of satisfaction with the possible benefits derived from this insurance, and trust in the institution associated with them. The result of these studies should also be a diagnosis of the attitude of society and states to the ideas and rules of the social risk management system, and in particular recognition of the degree of understanding of the need for social security by creating appropriate mechanisms. Therefore, it is important, taking into account the evolution of the development of the social state, to also answer the question of the possibility of directing other public institutions covering this important sphere of social relations formation in the social risk management system. The author finds in the article that social risk has a historical character, which is associated with both technological and cultural development of the individual. It is proved that the state played a key role in the development of the social risk management system. The stages of formation of the social risk management system are allocated and a scheme of methods of public management of social risks was built on the basis of the performed analysis. Also based on the analysis, strategic goals were identified in the system of public management of social risks, which allows to increase its effectiveness. Keywords: social risk, social risk management system, social security, state, social policy.

Spaces of welfare localism: geographies of locality making

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Martin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Critical Social

Situated in the latest incarnation of the ‘localism’ turn, this chapter offers new theoretical insights into the rhetoric of decentralist discourses and the geographical complexities and contradictions of state-remaking realities on-the-ground. The chapter suggests that there is considerable mileage in the notion of ‘locality’ to advance critical social policy analysis and that its earlier jettisoning may have been premature. The chapter urges for a ‘return to locality’ to enlighten studies of social policy and advances its argument through three new readings of locality – locality as bounded territorial space, as an approach to comparative analysis, and to read spaces of flows for diverse policy fields. Taken together the chapter argues that these constitute the basis for the benefits in thinking about geography through the lens of new localities.

scholarly journals Mutual Obligation? Regulating by Supervision and Surveillance in Australian Income Support P

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Parker ◽  
Rodney Fopp
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
Liberal Political Theory

Through an analysis of speeches by government ministers, documents and regulations, this article examines the Australian national government's surveillance of unemployed people through what is known as Activity Testing, and more specifically as Mutual Obligation. It seeks to merge the social policy analysis of Mutual Obligation with a surveillance perspective in order to delve deeper into the underlying nature of the policy and its implications for people who are unemployed. It does this by 1. outlining the neo-liberal political theory underlying these policies; 2. illustrating the nature and extent of surveillance of people in receipt of income support, and 3. employing Foucault's concepts of the technologies of domination and the self to highlight the controlling and coercive aspects of Mutual Obligation in achieving certain of the Government's political and policy objectives. In doing so, the analysis will make visible something of the power exerted over the disadvantaged while subject to such surveillance.

Not just nuisance: spatialising social statistics

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Statistical Assumptions ◽  
Social Statistics ◽  
Dominant Treatment

Outside of the specialist community of quantitative spatial researchers’ statistical analyses in the social sciences see geography merely as simple units of analysis or else as nuisance risks to the satisfaction of underlying statistical assumptions, if indeed it sees geography at all. In step-by-step discussion and visualisations this chapter upends that dominant treatment by illustrating the range of rich and frequently untapped spatial insights that a clearer understanding and grasp of specialist but (relatively) straightforward spatial methodologies can bring substantively to social policy analysis and practice.

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