Exploring Welfare Debates: Key Concepts and Questions by Lee Gregory

Author:Lee Gregory [Gregory, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447326571
Google: deI8yQEACAAJ
Amazon: B07DVFPTLZ
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Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

The previous section illustrated a number of ways in which stigma influences welfare debates. It is essential for understanding not only the experiences of those who claim welfare support but also the design of welfare support and institutions. This is a useful reminder that the concepts examined can be used to underpin policy design as well as to provide analytical lenses through which policies can be assessed. As such, Figure 6.1 illustrates how several overlapping arguments and ideas converge into an argument in favour of residual welfare support; that is, providing a bare minimum for survival because support is considered to generate dependency, while also suggesting that social problems result from individual faults and failures and so are not the state’s responsibility – except, perhaps, to correct.

This adopts a restricted definition of welfare with survival rather than flourishing at its core. As illustrated in earlier chapters, there are broader definitions. While there has been a gradual movement towards residual welfare (and growing support for the various arguments that underpin this) it is not inevitable. We will soon investigate some of the broader contextual concepts and narratives that are helping to facilitate this shift, which link to stigma and shame. The final chapter also provides some insight into how to challenge some of these developments. But before we can go any further, we need to consider how narratives interact with wider social changes, and how policy can support – or seek to resist – change. The family provides an example of this.

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