Making sense of social citizenship : some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities

Dwyer, PJ

Abstract

Against the backdrop of New Labour's claim to be constructing a new welfare state for the 21st century, this article explores how a diversity of welfare service users make sense of the principles and values central to the ongoing reform of public welfare. Drawing on a series of focus groups with welfare service users, the article adds an important empirical dimension to current debates about the contentious issue of welfare `resettlement' and notions of social citizenship.

Citation

Dwyer, P. (2002). Making sense of social citizenship : some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities. Critical Social Policy, 22(2), 273-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183020220020601

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2002
• Deposit Date: Jan 17, 2011
• Journal: Critical Social Policy
• Print ISSN: 0261-0183
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 273-299
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183020220020601
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183020220020601