Dependency culture : the explosion of a myth /: the explosion of a myth. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hartley Dean and Peter Taylor-Gooby.
• Other Names: Dean, Hartley, 1949-; Taylor-Gooby, Peter
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: the birth of a myth -- Social security and dependency culture -- The outline of the book -- Social change and `new poverty' -- Economic change and welfare dependency -- Family life and welfare dependency -- Government policy, inequality and dependency -- Conclusion: the irresistible rise of dependency culture -- ch. 2 Culture, structure and failure: the underclass debate -- Delinquency, dependency and the underclass -- The history of a discourse -- Britain's emerging underclass -- The informal economy -- Who's to blame? -- Marginalising minorities -- Dependency and the symbolism of the underclass -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 Values and dependency -- Dependency culture and social policy -- Employment benefits, and the work ethic -- Family policy and social welfare -- Dependency culture and public attitudes -- Studying claimants' experiences -- Conclusion -- ch. 4 The claiming experience -- Mainstream values -- Labour discipline Note continued: Family dependency -- The adversarial state -- Participation, active citizenship and popular imagery -- Conclusion -- ch. 5 Dependency or captivity? -- The discourses of dependency and poverty -- Competent subjects or manipulated objects? -- Axes of conformity -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Dependency and power -- Dependency as failure -- Dependency, the wage relation and the commodity form -- Dependency and the family -- Dependency, welfare and the state -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- The sample -- Methodology -- Sub-sample analysis.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 361.6; Welfare state; Social policy; Welfare state; Verzorgingsstaat; Afhankelijkheid (algemeen); Sociale zekerheid; Lagere klassen; Abhängigkeit; Unterschicht; Wohlfahrtsstaat; État providence; Afhankelijkheid (algemeen); Lagere klassen; Sociale zekerheid; Verzorgingsstaat; État providence; Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Grande-Bretagne -- Politique sociale -- 1979-1997; Grande-Bretagne -- Politique sociale -- 1979-1997
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317866954; 1317866959
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