From need to choice, welfarism to advanced liberalism? Problematics of social housing allocation

Legal Studies ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Cowan ◽  
Alex Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Housing Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Driven System ◽  
Housing Allocation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Recurrent Theme

Drawing on studies in governmentality, this paper considers the ways in which the selection and allocation of households for social housing have been conceptualised and treated as problematic. The paper urgues that the notion of ‘need’ emerged relatively slowly over the course of the twentieth century as the organising criterion of social housing. Yet ‘need’ became established as a powerful tool used to place those seeking social housing in hierarchies, and around which considerable expertise developed. While the principle of allocation on the basis of need has come to occupy a hegemonic position, it has operated it continual tension with competing criteria based on notions of suitability. As a consequence, this paper identifies risk management as a recurrent theme of housing management practices. By the 1960s need-based allocation was proving problematic in terms of who was being prioritised; it was also unuble to resist the challenge ofdeviant behaviour by tenunts and the apparent unpopularity of the social rented sector. We argue that the tramition to advanced liberalism prefaced a shift to new forms of letting accommodation bused on household choice, which have been portrayed as addressing core problems with the bureaucratically-driven system. We conclude by reflecting on the tensions inherent in seeking to foster choice, while continuing to adhere to the notion of need.

scholarly journals RIAK-RIAK POSMODERN DALAM CERPEN ABRACADABRA KARYA DANARTO

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dudy Syafruddin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S

Literature is a product of culture keeping abreast of human mind. Literary works is a means for the authors to express the social phenomenon in his life. The discourses about postmodernism in the second half of twentieth century, as a part of the story of human mind, was a profound interest for the Authors. In Indonesia, the postmodern discourse has come up in the 1960s. This paper involves the elements of Postmodernism in the short story “Abacadabra” written by Danarto. The dominant elements in this short story are parody, fragmentary, and historiographic metafiction.

Lifestyle

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-301
Author(s):  
Ryan Patrick Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This essay offers a genealogy of lifestyle, a category widely used in the 1960s to mark dissident kinship networks and sexual practices: single parenting, bisexuality, gender nonconformity, polyamory, cohabitation, and communal living, among many others. I argue that the concept of lifestyle emerged in a desire among white mid-twentieth-century suburbanites for the social and sexual worlds that preceded rapid suburbanization, those most visible in the immigrant industrial metropolis at its peak in the decades immediately before the United States drastically restricted immigration in 1924. Even at the apex of suburbanization in the 1960s, many people refused to comply with the demand for suburban domesticity, staying in the city, joining countercultural groups, or adopting what came to be called alternative lifestyles. But in that act of dissent, urban planners, real estate developers, and marketing experts saw an opportunity and began to sell urban lifestyle landscapes that they claimed would reproduce the sexual heterogeneity of the early twentieth-century industrial metropolis. By the 1980s, as ever more people lived outside the nuclear family, a growing lifestyle market drove up prices in central cities that amplified the class and race exclusions that the social movements of the 1960s contested. This article is therefore both a critical and a recuperative reading of lifestyle, one that uses the category to show how dissident sexualities can be both the harbinger of the niche-marketed gentrified city and an incitement to new ways of living and loving that advance the pursuit of economic justice.

The neo-pin ups: Reimagining mid-twentieth-century style and sensibilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S

Pin Up style has made a comeback with dozens of pin up competitions featuring at retro car festivals and events across Australia. A sub-culture has grown up around this phenomenon, with boutiques, celebrities and online influencers celebrating its aesthetic. I refer to this group as ‘neo-pin ups’ to differentiate them from the pin ups of the mid-twentieth century. Despite heralding the style and beauty of 1940s and 1950s pin ups, these neo-pin ups bear little resemblance to their mid-century counterparts. Researchers such as Madeleine Hamilton have investigated the era of the original Australian 1940s and 1950s pin up, finding an image deemed to be both ‘wholesome’ and ‘patriotic’ and suitable for the troops on the front lines. Ironically, this social approval resulted in pin up evolving in a more explicit direction throughout the 1960s as epitomized by Playboy magazine and the Miss World competitions. During this time, the increasingly influential feminist movement challenged the way women were viewed in society, particularly in regard to objectification and the male gaze. This critique continues today with the #metoo and gender equality movements. This article investigates how and why Australian women are transforming the image of the 1940s and 1950s pin up. Drawing upon interviews and observations conducted within the Australian neo-pin up culture, this article demonstrates how neo-pin ups draw on contemporary mores, rejecting the social values of their mid-century counterparts and reclaiming women’s place in society and history, from a female point of view. Neo-pin ups are not looking to return to the past, instead they are rewriting what pin ups represent to the present and future.

The reaction against conventional knowledge in higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Liberal education should consist of a healthy dynamic of mastering and transcending received traditions. This paper aims to discuss this point. Design/methodology/approach – This article discusses the inherent tension between the concepts of “liberal” and “education,” where “education” involves imparting conventional knowledge and “liberal” involves freeing the mind from it. Findings – With the rise of the social sciences and the maturation of the baby-boomers, higher education in the twentieth century gained a general bias against traditional knowledge. This bias is reflected in higher education becoming more jobs oriented, more ideological, and relativistic in values. Practical implications – Higher education should consist of greater integration of historical aspects of education pushed aside in the twentieth-century while continuing its transformation through new scientific research, making twenty-first century education more genuinely liberal. Originality/value – The required transformation will be difficult for many baby-boomers now in positions of authority in higher education who rejected conventional knowledge in the 1960s.

For the Life of the World and Orthodox Political Theology

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-356
Author(s):  
Cyril Hovorun
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

The article explores the document For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church ( FLW) in the contexts that had instigated its promulgation. It maps this document in the coordinates of the Orthodox political theology during the long twentieth century. FLW corresponds to a line in “the theology of the 1960s,” which advocated for liberal democracy and against anti-Westernism. The article argues that FLW fulfills the unaccomplished mission of the Panorthodox council in producing a comprehensive Orthodox social doctrine. It compares FLW with the social corpus adopted by the Russian Orthodox Church during the 2000s.

scholarly journals A Sustainability-Based Risk Assessment for P3 Projects Using a Simulation Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Beenish Bakhtawar ◽  
Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem ◽  
Husnain Arshad ◽  
Salman Tariq ◽  
Khwaja Mateen Mazher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Risk Management Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Project Objectives

Integrating sustainability in the risk management process is an emergent problem, especially for efficient infrastructure delivery. For the case of complex projects like public–private partnerships (P3), traditional management practices offer a limited capacity to address long-ranging risk impacts on the social, economic, and environmental fabric within and around the project boundaries. Although P3 projects are objective-based contracts, present risk models rarely delineate risk impacts on focused project objectives. The relevant studies are very scarce creating a limited understanding of available approaches to conducting sustainability-based risk management for P3 projects. As risk and sustainability are two inherently subjective concepts with multiple interpretations, their combined assessment within a single framework demands a pragmatic approach. Therefore, the current study presents a model for conducting a sustainability-based risk assessment of P3 infrastructure projects through global data. Monte Carlo simulation is employed to further define the probabilistic risk ranges and risk ranks over relevant triple-bottom-line-based sustainability indicators for highway sector P3 projects. Findings are further demonstrated through two highway case studies and relevant mitigation strategies are also suggested. In the end, an implementation framework and future recommendations for the application of study findings on actual projects are also suggested. The study has useful implications for practitioners and researchers alike aiming for the delivery of sustainable complex projects.

scholarly journals Ensaio e ciência: contextos e subentendidos de 'Os parceiros do rio bonito', de Antonio Candido

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiza Franco Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
German Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S

Os parceiros do Rio Bonito, by Antonio Candido, is a classic of the social sciences in Brazil, yet it does not fit easily within the parameters of the São Paulo school of sociology. This paper discusses the relation of Parceiros to multiple contexts: Candido’s reliance on The German Ideology and mid-twentieth-century anthropology, his critical response to easily recognizable representations of the São Paulo countryside, together with the echoes of Mário de Andrade’s research on folklore on this work. It proceeds to discuss the place of Parceiros in Antonio Candido’s overall intellectual trajectory. From the 1960s on, Candido sought to develop an “integrative criticism,” working predominantly with the essay form. Parceiros, together with the equally influential Formação da literatura brasileira, belong to an earlier moment in his career, when Candido presented his arguments more systematically, developing them mostly within the accepted boundaries of academic disciplines.

Structuralism in social science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore R. Schatzki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Cooking Practices ◽  
The 1960S

Any school of thought in the social sciences that stresses the priority of order over action is ‘structural’. In the twentieth century, however, ‘structuralism’ has been used to denote a European, largely French language, school of thought that applied methods and conceptions of order developed in structural linguistics to a wide variety of cultural and social phenomena. Structuralism aspired to be a scientific approach to language and social phenomena that, in conceiving of them as governed by autonomous law-governed structures, minimized consideration of social-historical context and individual as well as collective action. Structural linguistics was developed in the early part of the twentieth century primarily by the Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure. After the Second World War, it fostered roughly three phases of structural approaches to social phenomena. Under the lead of above all the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, classical structuralism applied structural linguistic conceptions of structure with relatively little transformation to such social phenomena as kinship structures, myths, cooking practices, religion and ideology. At the same time, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan appropriated Saussure’s conceptual apparatus to retheorize the Freudian unconscious. In the 1960s, a second phase of structural thought, neo-structuralism, extended structural linguistic notions of order to a fuller spectrum of social phenomena, including knowledge, politics and society as a whole. Many of Saussure’s trademark conceptions were abandoned, however, during this phase. Since the 1970s, a third phase of structuralism has advanced general theories of social life that centre on how structures govern action. In so refocusing structural theory, however, the new structuralists have broken with the conception of structure that heretofore reigned in structural thought.

The Avant-Folkways of Lorine Niedecker

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Hair
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Local History ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Gift Books ◽  
Small Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lorine Niedecker ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Folk Poetry

This chapter examines the ‘avant-folkways’ of Lorine Niedecker and her poetry and demonstrates how Niedecker’s poetry of the 1940s and 1950s draws on various aspects of folk, including folk speech, nursery rhymes and ballads, local history, and artisanal and domestic craft practices. Niedecker’s folk sensibility, chapter 1 argues, was enhanced considerably by her work on the Federal Writers’ Project, from 1938 to 1941. Niedecker’s poetry, it is argued, undermines the dichotomies that underpin the pervasive ideological construction of American folk in the twentieth century—notions of the regional versus the cosmopolitan, the modern versus the traditional—as well as popular distinctions regarding ‘formal’ versus ‘folk’ poetry, art, and aesthetics. Chapter 1 also examines the social implications of Niedecker’s folkways and their defining role in her own ‘renaissance’ across the Atlantic, in England and Scotland, via the channels of small press networks in the 1960s that her own handmade gift books, it is argued, significantly prefigures.

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