Social Constructionism in Housing Research by Jim Kemeny Keith Jacobs

Author:Jim Kemeny, Keith Jacobs [Jim Kemeny, Keith Jacobs]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780754638377
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Arthurson and Jacobs (2003) note that despite misgivings about social exclusion as an explanatory concept, academics in the UK had little choice about engaging in these debates because the UK Labour government put all action against disadvantage under the banner of social exclusion.

2 What is interesting about the social policy discourse in the contemporary era is that the ‘social’ is being replaced by a range of other equally amorphous terms. In 1996, for example, the Australian government abolished the Department of Social Security and established Centrelink to administer income support. The idea of being On social security benefits’ has been thoroughly problematised and the stated aim of governments in countries such as Britain, Australia and America is precisely to get citizens ‘off the social’ (Rose, 1999: 100). This is best expressed by the notion of ‘welfare-to-work’.

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