Stereotypes, conditions and binaries: Analysing processes of social disqualification towards children and parents living in precarity
Stereotypes, conditions and binaries: Analysing processes of social disqualification towards children and parents living in precarity
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10.1093/bjsw/bcab254
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发表时间：
2021-12-24
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1.8
通讯作者：
Roets, Griet
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作者：
Jacquet, Nicolas;Van Haute, Dorien;Roets, Griet
在大多数西方社会，儿童贫困是一个持续、复杂和多方面的问题。社会政策言论越来越倾向于对儿童贫困的个人主义解释，将父母描绘成“坏”和“服务不足”的父母。这种理性影响着社会工作的介入，影响着他们对社会公正的渴望。中心点我们的研究是由法国批判学者罗伯特·卡斯特和塞尔日·波加姆关于“不稳定”和“社会不合格”的理论观点所提供的。center dot我们的定性研究提供了一个深入和动态的理解的立场和社会工作者在他们的互动与家庭在不稳定的情况下的观点。我们的研究结果揭示了社会工作者如何在日常实践中构建刻板印象，条件和二元性，并有助于社会资格的丧失。我们的分析还显示了社会工作者如何审视、重新谈判和重新构建刻板印象、条件和二元性，并保持对社会正义愿望的忠诚。在当代欧洲福利国家，减贫战略目前可以被描述为个人主义而不是团结主义，侧重于福利接受者的优点而不是确保他们的权利。根据最近在比利时的一个研究项目的结果，我们探讨了社会工作者如何制定战略，以打击当地城市的儿童贫困。受到法国学者罗伯特·卡斯特和塞尔日·波加姆的启发，我们的定性分析揭示了社会工作者如何在日常实践中构建“值得”和“不值得”穷人之间的刻板印象，条件和二元关系。我们的研究结果阐明了社会工作者如何加强社会取消资格的过程中，他们支持儿童和制裁生活在贫困中的父母。有趣的是，我们的分析还表明，社会工作如何采取批评的立场，在社会政策和社会工作的规范价值取向的最近转变。
center dot Child poverty is a persistent, complex and multidimensional problem in most Western societies. center dot Social policy rhetoric increasingly favours individualist explanations for child poverty, which portrays parents as 'bad' and 'underserving' parents. center dot This rationality affects social work interventions and influences their social justice aspirations. center dot Our study is informed by the theoretical set of ideas on 'precarity' and 'social disqualification' of the critical French scholars Robert Castel and Serge Paugam. center dot Our qualitative study offers an in-depth and dynamic understanding of the positions and perspectives of social workers in their interaction with families in precarious situations. center dot Our findings reveal how social workers construct stereotypes, conditions and binaries in their everyday practice, and contribute to processes of social disqualification. center dot Our analysis also shows how social workers scrutinise, renegotiate and reframe stereotypes, conditions and binaries and remain loyal to their social justice aspirations.In contemporary European welfare states, poverty reduction strategies can currently be characterised as individualistic rather than solidaristic, focusing on welfare recipients' merit rather than securing their rights. Based on the findings of a recent research project in Belgium, we explore how social workers develop strategies to combat child poverty in local municipalities. Inspired by the work of the critical French scholars Robert Castel and Serge Paugam, our qualitative analysis reveals how social workers construct stereotypes, conditions and binaries between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor in their everyday practice. Our results elucidate how social workers strengthen processes of social disqualification when they support children and sanction parents living in poverty. Interestingly, our analysis also shows how social work takes a critical stance in relation to the recent shifts in the normative value orientation of social policy and social work.