Nostalgia narratives? Pejorative attitudes to welfare in historical perspective: survey evidence from Beveridge to the British Social Attitudes Survey
Nostalgia narratives? Pejorative attitudes to welfare in historical perspective: survey evidence from Beveridge to the British Social Attitudes Survey
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DOI：
10.1332/175982716x14721954315002
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
影响因子：
1.3
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Swift, Chelsea
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作者：
Hudson, John;Lunt, Neil;Swift, Chelsea
詹森和泰勒（2015）有力地指出，“反福利常识”，由负面的政治和媒体话语强调福利依赖和欺骗，近年来加强了对社会保障改革的支持。沿着其他许多学者，他们指出，公众对福利国家规定的态度越来越强硬，以及“值得”和“不值得”的穷人的概念如何重新引入流行的辩论。我们在这个奖学金中确定了四个不同的线程。首先，有一种观点认为，公众的态度已经从早期的战后福利想象和解决转变为反福利的共识。其次，这种硬化包括“他人”的日益普遍。第三条线索是扩大这种道德和纪律的目光，以包括残疾人等群体，直到最近，他们还没有受到与其他类型的福利领取者相同的耻辱。第四，是贬义的福利话语对弱势群体的自我认同和态度的影响。虽然越来越多的证据使人们越来越难以反驳英国存在反福利情绪的敌对团体的说法，在分析当代对福利的轻蔑态度时，经常隐含的观点是，福利国家曾经有一个“黄金时代”，作为公民社会权利提供的一套强有力的社会保障福利得到了更充分的支持。然而，这是否是一个有争议的问题，很少有研究试图拼凑共识时代公众对福利的态度。我们试图在此开展这项工作，特别是利用专门的态度调查和民意调查数据。具体来说，我们专注于如何在这些数据中发挥“值得”和“不值得穷人”的概念，指出在当代和历史上公众对福利的态度中发现的一些关键的连续性。
Jensen and Tyler (2015) have powerfully argued that 'anti-welfare commonsense', fuelled by negative political and media discourse stressing welfare dependency and deception, has buttressed support for social security reform in recent years. Along with many other academics they point to the hardening of public attitudes towards welfare state provision and how notions of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving poor' have been reintroduced into popular debates. We identify four distinct threads within this scholarship. First, there is an argument that public attitudes have shifted from an earlier post-war welfare imaginary and settlement to an anti-welfare consensus. Second, this hardening includes a growing prevalence of 'othering'. The third thread is the broadening of this moral and disciplinary gaze to include groups, such as disabled people, who until recently were not subject to the same amount of stigma as other types of benefit recipients. Fourth, is the impact of pejorative welfare discourses on the self-identity and attitudes of disadvantaged groups.While a growing body of evidence makes it increasingly difficult to argue against suggestions that there is a hostile body of anti-welfare sentiment in the UK, what is often implicit in the analysis of pejorative contemporary attitudes to welfare is the view that there was once a 'golden age' of the welfare state when public support was more fully behind a strong set of social security benefits provided as a social right of citizenship. Whether this was the case is a moot point however.Few studies have tried to piece together the attitudes to welfare of the general public during the consensus era. We attempt to undertake such a task here, drawing on ad hoc attitudes surveys and polling data in particular. Specifically, we focus on how notions of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving poor' play out in this data, pointing to some key continuities found in contemporary and historical public attitudes to welfare.