The Hollowing Out of the Welfare State and Social Capital

Roberts, John Michael; Devine, Fiona

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“…That despite its focus on the socially disenfranchised and their position relative to a status quo, there remains a hollow echo to the rhetoric around social inclusion. A void that is both redolent of discussion of the hollow state (Barnett, 1999;Davies, 2000;Della Sala, 1997;Holliday, 2000;London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group, 1980;Rhodes, 1994;Roberts & Devine, 2003;Skelcher, 2000), as well as a void that references one of Levitas's (2000) and Labonte's (2004) salient points: that it is one thing to promote an inclusionary utopia. However, in the event that such a utopian vision comes to pass, how likely is it that the result will be the kind of social world foreseen?…”

Section: A Sociological Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sociology of Social Inclusion

Allman

2013

SAGE Open

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This article considers the concept of social inclusion from the perspective of sociology. In doing so, it aims to complement the work of historians, economists, psychologists, and natural scientists to better understand the origins of the social inclusion concept. It argues that action and efforts to include or exclude individuals and social groups are fundamental to society as forces that govern through the oppressive or liberating effects such inclusionary or exclusionary actions promote.As a discipline from which to consider the social inclusion and exclusion concepts, sociology offers an excellent vantage. Sociology is well oriented to consider facets of social equality and inequality, social integration and stratification, social mobility as it relates to social inclusion and exclusion, and the functional contributions of the periphery relative to the social core. Sociology provides a needed vantage from which to consider social inclusion as it lends itself to extension beyond economic or natural fitness.In the social world, whether one is welcomed, represented, or provided for by the mainstream, or whether one is ostracized, ignored, or bemired, the outcome is a collection of social practices. These social practices result from various degrees of intimacy and interactions between friends, strangers, families, colleagues, kinship groups, communities, cultures, and even whole societies-all of which lend themselves to sociological study.This article begins with a consideration of exclusion and inclusion societies across time and place, including gated communities, closed institutions, and caste systems. The article delves into what is described as the natural order of social inclusion and exclusion. It explores some of the theories and findings that have come out of such an approach, including the evolutionary and sociobiological work in the area. To make its case for a sociology of social inclusion, the article then gazes back in time to three examples: ostracism in 5th-century Athens, solidarism in 19th century France, and contemporary considerations of stigma as influenced by the work of Goffman. Building on this, the article proposes that societies which emphasize differences in social integration are structured by architectures of inclusion that govern and manage how marginal women and men inhabit social space, while functioning to maintain many of the attributes of the status quo. Exclusion HierarchiesMore than 50 years ago, the anthropologist and sociologist David Pocock (1957) reflected that processes of inclusion and exclusion were features of all hierarchies. Pocock felt AbstractThis article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The article interrogates a variety of forms of social integration, including ostracism within 5th century B.C. Greece, 19th-century solidarism, and Goffman's mid-20th-century work on stigma. It does so to demonstrate how in each of these contexts...

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Section: A Sociological Lensmentioning

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The Sociology of Social Inclusion

Allman

2013

SAGE Open

109

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“…Understood in this way, political-economists within and outside geography have examined the profusion of scales upon which state-like social relationships occur (Brenner, 1999;Goodwin et al, 2002, Jones et al, 2004. It is argued that the state relation is being 'hollowed out' from its national nexus to both sub-national and supra-national scales (Roberts and Devine, 2003). The political-economic state literature arising within sociology consequently escapes from both the separate-spheres assumption by conceiving of the state as a social relation and the tendency to associate states with national-level polities by examining its de-and re-territorialisation at a variety of scales (Brenner, 1999).…”

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New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies

Gill

2010

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In order to accommodate more foreign elites, Jessop argued that, the "international context of domestic state action has been expanded to include a widening range of extraterritorial or transnational factors and processes" (Jessop, 2002, p. 200). In such a context, the role of the nation state is far from being hollowed out (Roberts & Devine, 2003), instead gaining more weight within this particular circumstance by changing governance patterns.…”

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Cross-border educational collaboration between Taiwan and China: the implications for educational governance

Chan

2011

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

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Taiwan has undertaken a series of cross-border collaboration with China for the past two decades. This paper aims to investigate the Taiwanese approach and policies of educational collaboration with China in a globalized context, where international competitiveness has become a great concern for most countries. It also examines how the Taiwanese government's cross-border educational collaboration will affect the flow of human capital across the Taiwan Strait and reflect upon the challenges of educational governance in Taiwan. It is argued that the rhetorical purposes stated by government may not be entirely realized due to the great concerns of national security, military threat, and employment issues among the public in Taiwan. These make overarching collaboration with China not possible at this stage. The lingering effects of this hesitation not only create an apartheid-type system among non-local students, but might also lead to an undesirable outcome of the outflow of human capital to China. In order to maintain effective collaboration with China, a wide range of governance challenges have been raised and need to be addressed.

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The Hollowing Out of the Welfare State and Social Capital

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

The Sociology of Social Inclusion

The Sociology of Social Inclusion

New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies

Cross-border educational collaboration between Taiwan and China: the implications for educational governance

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