Description
Book SynopsisThis updated and revised edition of Understanding social citizenship is still the only citizenship textbook written from a social policy perspective. It provides students with an understanding of the concept of citizenship in relation to UK, EU and global welfare institutions; covers a range of welfare debates and issues; explores inclusion and exclusion; combines analysis and discussion of social policies and uses easy-to-digest text boxes. The revised second edition contains new topical sections on 'Cameron's Conservatism' and the EU and A8/10 migration in the UK. The book is essential reading for undergraduates in social policy, sociology, social work, politics and citizenship, A/AS level students and their teachers, and those on access courses, foundation degrees and teacher training courses.
Trade Review'...this book is designed as a core text; but it will be useful not just to teachers and students but also to social policy practitioners and politicians because the contested and complex concept of citizenship now informs debate on all manner of social policy issues, as this book amply shows.' - Citizen's Income Newsletter
"A second edition of this excellent book is most welcome. Dwyer's understanding of social citizenship is second to none and this new edition provides an updated discussion and assessment of all the practical and theoretical issues that students need to know about this important area of study." Nick Ellison, University of Leeds
Table of ContentsContents: Part one: Citizenship and welfare: Introduction: defining citizenship; Two traditions of thought: civic republicanism and liberalism; The development of social citizenship in Britain; Contemporary approaches to social citizenship; Part two: Issues of difference and stratification: Poverty, class, citizenship and welfare; Gender, citizenship and welfare; Disabled citizens?; Race, ethnicity, citizenship and welfare; Ageing and older citizens; Part three: Beyond the nation state: Social Europe; Global citizenship?; Conclusions.
