Hayek, welfarism, and the deserving poor

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Ingemar Bengtsson ◽  
Daniel Rauhut
Keyword(s):  
Deserving Poor

War Widows and Welfare Queens

2019 ◽  
pp. 584-605
Author(s):  
Brittany Pearl Battle
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Undeserving Poor

This chapter examines the sociocognitive dimensions of cultural categorizations of deservingness. The social issue of poverty has been a persistent source of debate in the American system of policy development, influenced by conceptual distinctions between the “haves” and “have-nots,” “working moms” and “unemployed dads,” and the “deserving poor” and the “undeserving poor.” Although there is a wealth of literature discussing the ideological underpinnings of stratification systems, these discussions often focus on categorical distinctions between the poor and the nonpoor, with much less discussion of distinctions made among the poor. Moreover, while scholars of culture and policy have long referenced the importance of cultural categories of worthiness in policy development, the theoretical significance of these distinctions has been largely understudied. I expand the discourse on the relationship between cultural representations of worth and social welfare policy by exploring how these categories are conceptualized. Drawing on analytical tools from a sociology of perception framework, I create a model that examines deservingness along continuums of morality and eligibility to highlight the taken-for-granted cultural subtleties that shape perceptions of the poor. I focus on social filters created by norms of poverty, welfare, and the family to explore how the deserving are differentiated from the undeserving.

Portrait of the Underprivileged : Managing the Ignorant Substitute of Christ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose-Marie Peake
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
Moral Management ◽  
Charity Work ◽  
Daughters Of Charity

The fourth chapter tackles the means and contents of moral management aimed at the poor the Company of the Daughters of Charity helped. Focusing on the ideas and attitudes of the Company toward their benefactors, the chapter examines prejudice and love as motives in charity work and argues for the prevalence of the latter. Furthermore, the chapter discusses the contents of this moral management and finds that only a certain group of people were helped, the so called deserving poor, who were educated to become chaste and working members of society. This was not only in line with contemporary thinking of social order, but also part of the survival strategy that separated the order from erudite cloistered orders.

scholarly journals Village Vand, District Dhulera

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corrective Measures ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
The Government ◽  
Housing Programme

Vand village in Dhulera district is the setting for this case on the implementation of the government housing programme for weaker sections. A young Assistant Collector finds that the newly constructed huts had collapsed (:liter the first rains. He asks the Sarpanch, who had improperly been awarded the construction contract, to rebuild the huts at his own cost. The Assistant Collector also discovers that the Sarpanch, with the connivance of the Tehsildar, had managed to get prosperous villagers listed as allottees instead of the deserving poor. The corrective measures that the Assistant Collector initiates, with the help of the Police Patil, meet with resistance. Before the case is resolved, the Assistant Collector is transferred on promotion. Soon thereafter, the Police Patil is falsely implicated by the Sarpanch in a murder case. Village Vand, District Dhulera, contributed by an lAS officer who wishes to remain anonymous, raises questions on the strategies administrators should adopt to reach the benefits of government programmes to targetted groups, adequacy of powers delegated to administrators, role of development functionaries in equityoriented programmes, and the involvement of beneficiaries in the process of implementation.

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