Rethinking Citizenship: Welfare, Ideology and Change in Modern Society

Rethinking Citizenship: Welfare, Ideology and Change in Modern Society

by Maurice Roche (Author)

Synopsis

Citizenship rights have become vital to our sense of personal identity and social membership in modern society. In this book Maurice Roche argues that today we have to shift from the conventional post--war politics of social rights to a new politics of social obligations and personal responsibility. Recent social changes have created new problems which require rethinking of both social policy and the welfare state. In a wide--ranging discussion Roche provides a new analysis and assessment of citizenship in developed societies. The book is particularly important in its inclusion of an assessment of contemporary debates about the rise of the a new povertya , the development of an a underclassa , as well as other a post--industriala changes affecting employment and family life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Polity
Published: 03 Sep 1992

ISBN 10: 0745603076
ISBN 13: 9780745603070

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a Maurice Rochea s timely book Rethinking Citizenship offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of citizenship in social policy. A detailed, informative and highly recommended book.a Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Author Bio
Maurice Roche is Co--Director of the Policy Studies Centre, and also Lecturer in Sociology, both at Sheffield University.