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Informationen zum Autor Fred Twine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
