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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: welfare of the middle class
    sub title: changing relations in European welfare states
  name:
    name part: Siza, Remo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An individualised middle class -- The radical activism of the middle class -- The theoretical framework underpinning the research -- 'Disembedding' without 're-embedding' processes -- The old and the new 'middle mass' -- Towards a 'third welfare system' -- Defining the middle class: the need for a multidimensional approach -- Reconceptualising relationships between state, market and the informal sector -- Structure of the book
  table of contents: 1 The radicalisation of middle-class activism: a theoretical overview -- Two well-established strands of research -- The economic decline of the middle class -- The cultural changes -- The mobilisation of socially isolated people -- Combinatory attempts -- The infinite causal relationships -- The neglected agents' social actions -- Conclusion -- 2 A long-lasting transition -- Introduction -- The 'institutionalised individualism': the core value of Western societies -- The individualism of the middle class -- The first signs of internal crisis
  table of contents: Work as an uncertain foundation of an individualised existence -- Towards a society of isolated monads? -- We are living in an ambivalent condition -- Returning to more traditional social ties? -- Conclusion -- 3 The rise of a new 'middle mass' -- A new politically and socially unstable stratum -- At the bottom of the social structure -- At the centre of social stratification -- The cleavage of the new 'middle mass' -- A mass of active and reflexive individuals -- New social divisions, new cleavages -- Conclusion -- 4 The shifting relations with the welfare state
  table of contents: An uncertain distinction strategy -- The middle class and the traditional welfare state -- The collective revolts of the middle mass -- The changing trajectory of middle-class positions -- Individualising welfare solutions -- An activism that does not work -- Stabilising social divisions: the divided welfare state -- Regulating the conduct of low-income populations -- Stabilising social distance: support for welfare chauvinism -- Following the age of dualisation: towards a 'third welfare system'? -- Middle-class support for an inclusive welfare -- Conclusion
  table of contents: 5 A welfare for a highly individualised society -- What does the middle class really need? -- Overcoming the divisive welfare state -- The social and cultural limits of the social investment approach -- Activation programmes founded on a plurality of social resources -- A different relationship between state, market and informal sector -- New balances between individualised activism and collective bonds -- Promoting an interplay between individual actions and institutions' activities -- A welfare grounded on the realm of communicative actions -- Bringing social back in the welfare state
  note: Remo Siza.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Welfare state
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: Middle class
    geographic: Europe
  classification: HV238 .S59 2022
  classification: 361.6/5094
  identifier: 144736001X
  identifier: 9781447360018
  identifier: 1447359992
  identifier: 9781447359999
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 220918
    record change date: 20230306141831.3
    record identifier: in00004649258