Rethinking Citizenship

Citizenship rights have become vital to our sense of personal identity and social membership in modern society. In this book Maurice Roche argues that today we have to shift from the conventional post-war politics of social rights to a new politics of social obligations and personal responsibility. Recent social changes have created new problems which require rethinking of both social policy and the welfare state.

In a wide-ranging discussion Roche provides a new analysis and assessment of citizenship in developed societies. The book is particularly important in its inclusion of an assessment of contemporary debates about the rise of the 'new poverty', the development of an 'underclass', as well as other 'post-industrial' changes affecting employment and family life.

Introduction.

Part I: The Dominant Paradigm and its Limits:.

1. Social Citizenship and the Dominant Paradigm: the British case.

2. Alternative Version of Social Citizenship.

3. The Limits of Social Citizenship:.

Poverty and the Underclass in the USA.

Part II: The Neoconservative Challenge:.

Social Duties and Cultural Change:.

4. Neoconservatism, Citizenship and Welfare.

5. Reforming Social Citizenship I:.

Neoconservatism and Family Policy in the USA.

6. Reforming Social Citizenship II:.

Neoconservatism and Work Policy in the USA.

Part III: The Challenge of Modernity:.

Social Rights and Political Economic Change:.

7. Reinventing Social Citizenship I:.

Post-Industrialism, and New Social Rights.

8. Reinventing Social Citizenship II:.

Post-Nationalism, and New Social Rights in Europe.

9. Rethinking Social Citizenship: Rights, Duties and Capitalism.

Bibliography.

'Maurice Roche's timely book Rethinking Citizenship offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of citizenship in social policy. A detailed, informative and highly recommended book.' Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Maurice Roche is Co-Director of the Policy Studies Centre, and also Lecturer in Sociology, both at Sheffield University. Citizenship rights have become vital to our sense of personal identity and social membership in modern society. In this book Maurice Roche argues that today we have to shift from the conventional post-war politics of social rights to a new politics of social obligations and personal responsibility. Recent social changes have created new problems which require rethinking of both social policy and the welfare state.

In a wide-ranging discussion Roche provides a new analysis and assessment of citizenship in developed societies. The book is particularly important in its inclusion of an assessment of contemporary debates about the rise of the 'new poverty', the development of an 'underclass', as well as other 'post-industrial' changes affecting employment and family life.