Research Catalog

Title

Dependency culture : the explosion of a myth / Hartley Dean and Peter Taylor-Gooby.

Author

Dean, Hartley, 1949-

Publication

New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Taylor-Gooby, Peter.

Description

xi, 217 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Provides an overview of the debates surrounding terms like "dependency culture", advancing new arguments about the relationship between social security reform and the effects of social change while contributing new insights into concerns about dependency, need and citizenship.

Subject

• Since 1979
• Welfare state
• Social policy
• Abhängigkeit
• Unterschicht
• Wohlfahrtsstaat
• Verzorgingsstaat
• Afhankelijkheid (algemeen)
• Sociale zekerheid
• Lagere klassen
• État providence
• Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > 1979-1997

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0745012256
• 9780745012254
• 0745012264
• 9780745012261

LCCN

93106591

OCLC

• ocm27687492
• 27687492
• SCSB-1999396

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library