scholarly journals The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer – CORRIGENDUM

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-587
Author(s):  
PHILIP TAYLOR ◽  
CATHERINE EARL
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Termism

In the April 2016 issue of the Journal of Social Policy (vol 45, part 2 pp251-268), there was an article by Philip Taylor and Catherine Earl entitled ‘The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer’ which contains the following statement: “The case for early exit was argued, in part, on the back of efforts to re-distribute work to the young. Macnicol (2008) describes this as ‘misguided short-termism’ attempting to facilitate economic modernisation” (p251). This should have read “Macnicol (2008) describes as incorrect commentary that this was ‘misguided short-termism’ attempting to facilitate economic modernisation.” The authors acknowledge that the statement in their article was incorrect and apologise for this oversight.

Evolving meanings of “the social” in the international development agenda

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naila Kabeer
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Social

This paper argues that while social policy as an explicit aspect of policy discourse has relatively recent origins within the international development agenda, concerns with “the social” have featured from its very early days seeking to challenge the conflation between growth and development. The paper focuses on key international conferences and policy documents to analyse contestations over the meanings of “the social” within development policy discourse and their efforts to rethink its boundaries with “the economic”. It suggests that these contestations have helped to spell out the basic outlines of an alternative policy agenda in which concerns with “the social” have come to define both the means and ends of development.

scholarly journals Global Discourses, Regional Framings and Individual Showcasing: Analyzing the World of Education IOs

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-186
Author(s):  
Dennis Niemann ◽  
Kerstin Martens
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEducation is commonly heralded as one of the key policies for fostering future progress and well-being. Hence, education policy can be conceptualized as a social policy as it enables individuals to acquire skills for living an independent and fulfilled life while also providing states with a toolkit to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion. In this chapter, we first map the population of education International Organizations (IOs) to describe the organizational field in which the social policy discourse in the sub-area of education takes place. The assessment of what types of IOs deal with education is summarized in a typology to identify different clusters of IOs and provide accounts of both their characteristics and the different niches they have populated in the organizational field of education policy. Second, the ideas IOs hold regarding education are analyzed and it is shown how the discourse on education has developed over time within the population of IOs.

scholarly journals The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP TAYLOR ◽  
CATHERINE EARL
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Weak Basis ◽  
World Views ◽  
Social Advocacy ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis article is concerned with the evolving social construction of older workers and retirement. Evolving and competing ‘world-views’ from public policy, and social advocacy of productive and vulnerable older workers, are described and critiqued. Contradictions and disjunctions, in terms of public policies aimed at changing employer behaviour towards older workers, are identified. It is argued that present representations of older workers have serious flaws that provide a weak basis for policy development and may not only undermine the prospects for overcoming prejudicial societal attitudes but may in fact strengthen them. It is further argued that sheltering older workers in employment placements will inevitably limit the extent and nature of their participation. Instead, the mainstreaming of their employment is justified, bearing in mind negative attitudes towards ageing.

scholarly journals Governmentality, Social Policy and the Social Construction of Old Age in England

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 108-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
People First ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Active Citizen

This article looks in more detail at the incidence and consequence of social policies for older people through the distinctly French post-structuralist lens of governmentality (Foucault, 1977). This will enable us to consider the implications of the re-figuring of the relationship between the state, older people and social work. This re-figuring constructs an ambiguous place for older people: they feature either as a resource - captured in the idea of the „active citizen‟, as affluent consumers, volunteers or providers of child care - or as a problem in the context of poverty, vulnerability and risk. In many ways, policy provides three trajectories for older people: first, as independent self-managing consumers with private means and resources; second, as people in need of some support to enable them to continue to self-manage; and third, as dependent and unable to commit to self-management. Governmentality provides the theoretical framework through which to view policy and practice that is largely governed by discourses of personalisation, safeguarding, capability and risk.

scholarly journals Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of ‘care’ and ‘dependency’

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL FINE ◽  
CAROLINE GLENDINNING
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Professional Intervention

Research and theory on ‘dependency’ and ‘care-giving’ have to date proceeded along largely separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the same phenomenon. Research on ‘care’, initially linked to feminism during the early 1980s, has revealed and exposed to public gaze what was hitherto assumed to be a ‘natural’ female activity. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a social model of disability have seen the language of and the policy focus upon ‘care’ as oppressive and objectifying. ‘Dependency’ is an equally contested concept: sociologists have scrutinised the social construction of dependency; politicians have ascribed negative connotations of passivity; while medical and social policy discourse employs the term in a positivist sense as a measure of physical need for professional intervention. Autonomy and independence, in contrast, are promoted as universal and largely unproblematic goals. These contrasting perspectives have led social theory, research and policies to separate and segregate the worlds of ‘carers’ from those for whom they ‘care’. Drawing on the work of Kittay and others, this paper explores the ways in which sociological perspectives can develop new understanding of the social contexts of ‘care’ and ‘dependence’.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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