Download or read book La soci t fran aise et ses pauvres written by Serge Paugam and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis la Révolution française, l'assistance aux pauvres figure parmi les devoirs de la nation qui entend par cette action reconnaître et faire respecter les droits de l'homme. En instaurant le revenu minimum d'insertion en décembre 1988, la France a souhaité compléter son système de protection sociale par une aide dont le double objectif est de procurer des moyens convenables d'existences aux plus démunis et de les encourager à entreprendre eux-mêmes les actions nécessaires pour cesser d'être assistés. Comment peut-on expliquer qu'il a fallu attendre la fin des années 80 pour que cette loi soit votée en France, alors que d'autres pays en Europe avaient mis en place un revenu minimum garanti il y a déjà plusieurs années ? Comment les actions dites d'insertion ont-elles été mises en œuvre à l'échelon local ? Quels en ont été les effets ? Pour répondre à ces questions, l'auteur analyse les attitudes de la société française envers ses pauvres au cours de deux périodes - les " Trente Glorieuses ", les années 80 - et se fonde sur les débats parlementaires et de nombreux résultats d'enquêtes pour interpréter l'expérience du RMI. Il y voit une réponse collective à ce qui a été perçu comme une dégradation de la cohésion sociale. Ce livre s'adresse à ceux qui furent concernés de près ou de loin par l'application et l'évaluation de cette loi, mais aussi à ceux qui s'interrogent de façon plus générale sur les chances des sociétés modernes de réguler les tensions sociales de la fin du siècle, en particulier celles qui sont nées de la dégradation du marché de l'emploi et de l'affaiblissement des liens sociaux.
Download or read book PAUVRES ET MARGINAUX DANS LA SOCI T FRAN AISE written by Roger Bertaux and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De quelle logique relève les modes de prise en charge des pauvres et des marginaux dans notre société ? Faut-il y voir l'effet d'une volonté humanitaire s'exerçant à l'égard de ceux qui souffrent ? Faut-il y voir tout au contraire l'effet de la domination exercée par des appareils d'État ou par des élites dirigeantes ? Cet ouvrage tente de dépasser le caractère réducteur de ces explications et de trouver dans la sociologie de l'action des outils d'analyse appropriés pour saisir la complexité des modes d'administration des pauvres et des marginaux.
Download or read book La soci t fran aise et ses pauvres written by Serge Paugam and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est paru pour sa 1e éd en 1993 dans la collection Recherches politiques. Ce fut une des premières études complètes sur le revenu minimum d'insertion, instauré en France en décembre 1988 par le gouvernement Rocard. Le double objectif du RMI était de procurer des moyens convenables d'existence aux plus démunis et de les encourager à entreprendtre eux-mêmes les actions nécessaires pour cesser d'être assistés. L'auteur étudie les attitudes de la société française envers ses pauvres durant les Trente Glorieuses et les années 80 en se fondant sur les débats parlementaires et des enquêtes sur les bénéficiaires du RMI. Il analyse la mise en place des actions dites d'insertion et leurs effets.
Download or read book Pauvres et marginaux dans la soci t fran aise written by Roger Bertaux and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De quelle logique relèvent les modes de prise en charge des pauvres et des marginaux dans notre société ? Faut-il y voir l'effet d'une volonté humanitaire s'exerçant à l'égard de ceux qui souffrent ? Faut-il y voir tout au contraire l'effet de la domination exercée par des appareils d'Etat ou par des élites dirigeantes ? Cet ouvrage tente de dépasser le caractère réducteur de ces explications et de trouver dans la sociologie de l'action des outils d'analyse appropriés pour saisir la complexité des modes d'administration des pauvres et des marginaux. La gestion des marges de la société, loin d'être elle-même marginale, a posé au cours de l'histoire de la société française et continue à poser des questions centrales sur la distribution des ressources, sur la répartition du travail et sur les modalités de l'intégration sociale, mobilisant de manière conflictuelle les acteurs sociaux.
Download or read book La soci t et les pauvres en Europe XVIe XVIIIe si cles written by Jean-Pierre Gutton and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1974-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour présenter les pauvres en Europe du seizième au dix-huitième siècle l'auteur procède par deux démarches complémentaires. Il propose d'abord une typologie des pauvres, des mendiants et des vagabonds. Il montre ainsi comment, dans les sociétés européennes de l'époque moderne, la présence de groupes pauvres est possible ou, plutôt, inéluctable. Cependant, les pauvres, largement analphabètes, n'ont eu ni le temps, ni les moyens de se raconter. Les témoignages qui permettent de les décrire émanent presque tous d'autres groupes sociaux. Ils peuvent être largement influencés par la peur, le mépris, l'incompréhension. C'est là ce qui justifie la seconde démarche de l'auteur. Pour critiquer ses documents, il s'interroge sur l'idée et sur l'image que la société se fait de ses franges les plus humbles à différentes époques. Ainsi l'étude de la vision des pauvres par la société et de l'évolution de cette vision pendant trois siècles doit éclairer l'histoire des pauvres. Histoire sociale et histoire des représentations collectives doivent s'épauler dans l'analyse du paupérisme des sociétés de l'époque moderne. Jean-Pierre Gutton, agrégé d'histoire et docteur ès lettres, est professeur à l'Université de Lyon.
Download or read book Discourse on Inequality in France and Britain written by John Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this volume consists of 16 edited papers presented at an Anglo-French conference on inequality in France in March 1997. The purpose of this book is to bring together ideas and perceptions of inequality in the two countries across several areas including multi-ethnicity, education, social work, housing and health, presented by experts in these fields and in cultural studies. The purpose is not comparative in the traditional sense, but rather to analyze the different meanings amd conceptions that apply to inequality in France and Britain and to demostrate how these differences affect policies as well as what is considered to be legitimate grounds for policy intervention. This approach to social policy in Europe pays attention to the cultural meanings of concepts like inequality and demonstrates that comparative social policy can only be properly productive when it acknowledges that key words like poverty, inequality, citizenship, social rights and insertion/exclusion carry with them quite different ideological, moral and social meanings in two countries such as Britain and France.
Download or read book Les formes l mentaires de la pauvret written by Serge Paugam and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etude sociologique de la pauvreté fondée sur diverses enquêtes comparatives réalisées en Europe. L'auteur définit une typologie des formes élémentaires de la pauvreté basée sur la relation d'interdépendance entre la population désignée comme pauvre et la société dont elle fait partie.
Download or read book Community of Citizens written by Dominique Schnapper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed work, for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994, sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the modern nation represent at once a learned history of the national ideal, a powerful rejoinder to its contemporary critics, and a masterful essay in the sociological tradition of Ernest Renan, Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Raymond Aron. If Schnapper asserts, the fate of liberal democracy is coterminous with that of the national ideal, then the nation's fate—and the answer to this question—must be of pressing interest to us all. Reflecting deeply on both the nation's past and future, Schnapper places her hopes in what she terms "the community of citizens." No mere exercise in sociological abstraction, Schnapper's case for the nation also entails a practical political objective. In a time of radical difference, the national ideal may be the last, great social unifier. This book deserves a place alongside the works of Elie Kedourie, Ernest Gellner, Anthony Smith, and other classics in the study of nationalism and nationality. This work will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and political scientists alike.
Download or read book Political Economy of Modern Capitalism written by Colin Crouch and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-10-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism and deregulation have come to dominate national and international political economy. This major book addresses this convergence and analyzes the implications for the future of capitalist diversity. It considers important questions such as: Is the preference for free markets a well-founded response to intensified global competition? Does this mean that all advanced societies must all converge on an imitation of the United States? What are the implications for the institutional diversity of the advanced economies? Political Economy of Modern Capitalism provides a practical and informed analysis of the public policy choices facing governments and business around the world.
Download or read book Mapping the West European Left written by Patrick Camiller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized as a series of tightly linked, comparative assessments, Mapping the West European Left provides a guide to the state of the left in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. While all the essays are detailed historical compositions-setting recent crises and dilemmas in a longer perspective reaching back into the postwar settlement-they articulate original insights into the contemporary political conjuncture. Why did Swedish social democracy lose hegemony and direction while its Norwegian counterpart showed unexpected resilience? What was the background to the Danish rebellion against Maastricht? What are the prospects for the SPD and the Greens in post-unification Germany? Should the British Labour Party embrace electoral reform? What propelled the French Socialist Party from triumph to disaster? And why did the Italian left fail to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of the Christian Democrats? Behind the questions explored by the contributors to Mapping the West European Left lie deeper issues concerning the future of radical politics in Europe after the repudiation of Keynesianism and the end of communism. With the individual country analyses synthesized by the editors in a concise and comprehensive introductory essay, this book provides key pointers to the social forces and ideological platforms that offer lines of advance to the left today.
Download or read book Humanitarian Reason written by Didier Fassin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies primarily France with shorter sections on South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine.
Download or read book Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective written by Peter Sloman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. The study of UBI provides a prism through which we can understand how different intellectual traditions, political agents, and policy problems have opened up space for new thinking about work and welfare at critical moments. Contributions range broadly across time and space, from Milton Friedman and the debate over guaranteed income in the post-war United States to the emergence of the European basic income movement in the 1980s and the politics of cash transfers in contemporary South Africa. Taken together, these chapters address comparative questions: why do proposals for a guaranteed minimum income emerge at some times and recede into the background in others? What kinds of problems is basic income designed to solve, and how have policy proposals been shaped by changing attitudes to gender roles and the boundaries of social citizenship? What role have transnational networks played in carrying UBI proposals between the global north and the global south, and how does the politics of basic income vary between these contexts? In short, the book builds on a growing body of scholarship on UBI and lays the groundwork for a much richer understanding of the history of this radical proposal. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Download or read book Loading the Dice written by Brian Nolan and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 1999 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines whether disadvantages such as childhood poverty, lack of educational qualifications and unemployment combine to create a situation of poverty and exclusion more extreme than that produced by any one disadvantage on its own. By providing an analysis of the way in which disadvantages combine and interact, the book increases an understanding of the processes that lead to the extreme marginalization experienced by certain groups in Irish society.
Download or read book Urban Outcasts written by Loïc Wacquant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment. In European cities, by contrast, the spread of districts of 'exclusion' does not herald the formation of ghettos. It stems from the decomposition of working-class territories under the press of mass unemployment, the casualization of work and the ethnic mixing of populations hitherto segregated, spawning urban formations akin to 'anti-ghettos'. Comparing the US 'Black Belt' with the French 'Red Belt' demonstrates that state structures and policies play a decisive role in the articulation of class, race and place on both sides of the Atlantic. It also reveals the crystallization of a new regime of marginality fuelled by the fragmentation of wage labour, the retrenchment of the social state and the concentration of dispossessed categories in stigmatized areas bereft of a collective idiom of identity and claims-making. These defamed districts are not just the residual 'sinkholes' of a bygone economic era, but also the incubators of the precarious proletariat emerging under neoliberal capitalism. Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over social inequality and citizenship at century's dawn.
Download or read book Reworking Class written by John R. Hall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class struggle. They seek instead to understand the historically contingent ways in which economic interests are pursued under institutionally, socially, and culturally structured circumstances.In his introduction, Hall proposes a neo-Weberian venue intended to bring the most promising contemporary approaches to class analysis into productive exchange with one another. Some of the chapters that follow rework how classes are conceptualized. Others offer historical and sociological reflections on questions of class identity. A third cluster focuses on the politics of class mobilizations and social movements in contexts of national and global economic change.
Download or read book Of States and Cities written by Peter Marcuse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants, and ethnic and racial segregation, are the key themes of this book. Taking examples from cities from Sao Paulo to Istanbul, from New York to Edinburgh, and adding their own ideas, the authors examine what might be done to improve things for all those who live in cities.
