A Critical Analysis of Approaches to the Concept of Social Identity in Social Policy
A Critical Analysis of Approaches to the Concept of Social Identity in Social Policy
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对社会政策中社会认同概念的批判性分析
DOI：
10.1177/02610183030233002
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
S. Hunter
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作者：
S. Hunter
这篇文章试图强调目前在社会政策中对社会认同采取的不平衡做法，并就如何在今后利用这一概念的工作中纠正这一问题提出建议。社会政策学科越来越多地使用认同的概念，特别是社会认同，作为弥合个人/社会鸿沟的一种理论手段。然而，这里提出的论点表明，这一概念在政策分析中的部署不均衡，因此缺乏它本来可能产生的影响。目前分析的主要重点是围绕分化和支离破碎的社会身份组织起来的“新的”积极福利组成群体促成的政策变化，而也参与政策制定过程的福利专业人员的身份已经从分析的观点中消失。目前对政策制定的论述背景的强调，延续了一种关于参与政策制定的人的非社会性的未被承认的误解，即他们的主要作用被认为是在社会政策对福利组成部分的需求作出反应方面维持现状。通过进一步探索关系身份的概念，可以避免在发展中的人和使用福利服务的人之间纠正这种错误的二分法。
This article seeks both to highlight a current imbalance in approaches to social identity in social policy and to make suggestions as to how this might be redressed in future work employing the concept. The concept of identity and specifically social identity is increasingly employed in the discipline of social policy as a theoretical device with which to bridge the individual/social divide. The argument presented here suggests that the concept is, however, unevenly deployed in policy analysis and therefore lacks the impact it might otherwise have had. The predominant focus of current analysis lies on policy change precipitated by groups of `new' active welfare constituents organized around differentiated and fragmented social identities, whereas the identities of welfare professionals also involved in the policy making process have disappeared from analytical view. The current emphasis on the discursive context of policy formulation perpetuates an unacknowledged misconception concerning the asociality of those involved in policy making, whereby their principal role is perceived as the maintenance of the status quo in terms of social policy responses to welfare constituents' needs. Redressing this false dichotomy between those developing and those using welfare services might be avoided by further exploring the concept of relational identity.