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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.
List of contents
PART ONE: SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE: A BASIS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS
Self and Society
The Development of the `Social Self¿
Labour Markets and Interdependence
The Kinds of People We Are Able To Be
Lifecourse Interdependence
The Social Connections and Networks of Life
PART TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL INTERDEPENDENCE
The Sustainability of the Means to Life
GNP and the Mis-measure of Progress
Externalities
Environmental and Social Costs
PART THREE: A POLITICS OF REDISTRIBUTION, SUFFICIENCY AND PARTICIPATION
Redistribution and Sufficiency
Political Participation
Beyond and Below the Nation State
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
The European Social Charter
A Basic Income
An Embodiment of Social Rights?
PART SIX: CITIZENSHIP: UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION
The Sociological Imagination
Having and Being
About the author
Fred Twine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen.
Summary
An analysis of the idea of citizenship and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies. This book examines the socially embedded nature of human rights, and their interdependence with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit.
