Rethinking Citizenship: Welfare, Ideology and Change in Modern Society - Softcover

Roche, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745603076 ISBN 13: 9780745603070

Publisher: Polity, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice Roche is Co-Director of the Policy Studies Centre, and also Lecturer in Sociology, both at Sheffield University.

Review:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0745603076
• ISBN 13: 9780745603070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288