Republican Party but that Trump has, for his convenience, made explicit. His followers are united less by a coherent set of anti–big government ideological precepts (they mostly support social welfarism in the form of Social Security and Medicaid) and more by
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The changing contours of the hegemonic field in the twenty-first-century United States
Jeff Maskovsky
Social security and care after socialism
Reconfigurations of public and private
Rosie Read and Tatjana Thelen
State frameworks for welfare and social security have been subject to processes of privatization, decentralization, and neoliberal reform in many parts of the world. This article explores how these developments might be theorized using anthropological understandings of social security in combination with feminist perspectives on care. In its application to post-1989 socioeconomic transformation in the former socialist region, this perspective overcomes the conceptual inadequacies of the "state withdrawal" model. It also illuminates the nuanced ways in which public and private (as spaces, subjectivities, institutions, moralities, and practices) re-emerge and change in the socialist era as well as today, continually shaping the trajectories and outcomes of reforms to care and social security.
Les Assurances Sociales
une contribution à la modernisation de la société française dans l'entre-deux-guerres?
Bruno Valat
The 1930 law creating social insurance was the Third Republic's great achievement in the social arena. However, the historiography of contemporary France contains barely a trace of this achievement. Victim of the regime's discredit as well as of the lack of any reformist political efforts in its favor, social insurance of the 1930s has also suffered by comparison to later achievements, particularly the creation of Social Security in 1945. However, if we study social insurance in its own historical context—and not in reference to the postwar period—, it can constitute an original source for the study of the modernization of French society. This article proposes three approaches: social insurance constitutes a vector for the acculturation of the working class to retirement and to the medicalization of health, contributing to the history of working class uses and representations of consumption and social rights. On a more institutional level, the experience of social insurance reveals the first legal experiments with co-gestion involving employers, workers, and insurance organizations. Finally, a prosopographical study of the militant trajectories linked to social insurance could contribute to the history of the working-class movement between 1930 and the end of the Thirty Glorious Years: is there a "social insurance generation" within French syndicalism?
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2006
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–123 (10 total)
European Integration and the Reform of Social Security in the Accession Countries
Zsuzsa Ferge
The “European model” of social protection is nowhere defined yet quite often referred to. Many of its underlying values and constitutive elements are repeatedly spelt out in various documents. Let me recapitulate in a condensed way some of the core values and some of the instruments or building blocks promoting their implementation.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2001
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 9–25 (17 total)
Social security in religious networks. Anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences edited by Leutloff‐Grandits, Carolin, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana Thelen
MARIA SIX‐HOHENBALKEN
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2011
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 125–126 (1 total)
Ageing in insecurity. Case studies on social security and gender in India and Burkina Faso/Vieillir dans l'insecurité. Sécurité sociale et genre en Inde et au Burkina Faso. Etudes de cas by de Jong, Willemijn, Claudia Roth, Fatoumata Badini‐Kinda and Seema Bhagyanath
ELISABETH SCHRÖDER‐BUTTERFILL
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 239–241 (2 total)
The Janus face of austerity politics
Autonomy and dependence in contemporary Spain
Susana Narotzky
erasing class and dismantling social security systems. A recent Guardian article 1 speaking about the protests in Hong Kong and Chile pointed at the young age of the protesters and declared that class-based struggles had shifted and transformed into
Caring for men in contemporary Russia
Gendered constructions of need and hybrid forms of social security
Rebecca Kay
This article explores gendered constructions of care and need and the ways in which these affect men's social security in contemporary Russia. It is suggested that gendered caring practices, besides overburdening women and devaluing their labor, also contribute to a trivialization of men's needs and their marginalization in, and/or exclusion from, complex forms of social security. Social security is understood to encompass both material and emotional support structures and networks, involving both state and nonstate actors. It is argued that hybrid forms of provision are emerging, with new actors challenging and blurring strict categorizations of state/nonstate, formal/informal, and material/ emotional in their contribution to social security. The article draws on a study of the Altai Regional Crisis Center for Men and its attempts to identify men's needs for social support, to provide appropriate forms of care, and to enhance the social security of men in the Altai Region of Western Siberia.
Elder care in the new Russia
The changing face of compassionate social security
Melissa L. Caldwell
Changing emigration and co-residence patterns in the post-Soviet period have left many elderly Russians living alone or without caretakers in close proximity. In addition, Russia's transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism has encouraged private welfare groups, often funded and staffed by foreigners, to assume increased responsibility for providing social security to elderly people. Consequently, notions of compassion are undergoing transformation in Russia, and the types of people who provide care are also changing dramatically as caregivers are more likely to be strangers, and especially foreigners, rather than family members. This article examines social security arrangements among Russia's elderly, with particular emphasis on the emergence of transnational caregiving relationships, and how these caregiving arrangements differ from global care networks reported elsewhere.
Social Market, Social Quality, and the Quality of Social Institutions
Ota de Leonardis
Social policy plays a very important role in the social quality of Europe, and not only because it considerably affects the life conditions of the population. I will argue that its structure and weight affects at least as much: (a) the possibility of acknowledging as common goods social benefits such as health, education, social security; and (b) the presence of public discourse arenas about these goods, where the daily life of democracy is carried out. This is why social policy holds a great importance even for the building of European democracy, and for Europe's socio-political integration in itself.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 1999
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 32–44 (13 total)