Membership without Social Citizenship? Deservingness & Redistribution as Grounds for Equality

Bibliographic Data

ID9684909
AuthorsI Bloemraad (0000-0001-7167-2582, Citigroup), Will Kymlicka (0000-0001-6468-5174, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), M Lamont (0000-0002-0221-0402, American Sociological Association), Leanne S Son Hing (0000-0003-1641-1202, Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine)
Year2019
Volume148
Issue3
Pages73-104
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_01751
OpenAlexW2955850801
LanguageEN
Citations received53
References cited3

Western societies have experienced a broadening of inclusive membership, whether we consider legal, interpersonal, or cultural membership. Concurrently, we have witnessed increased tensions around social citizenship, notably harsher judgments or boundaries over who “deserves” public assistance. Some have argued these phenomena are linked, with expanded, more diverse membership corroding solidarity and redistribution. We maintain that such a conclusion is premature and, especially, unsatisfactory: it fails to detail the processes–at multiple levels of analysis–behind tensions over membership and social citizenship. This essay draws on normative political theory, social psychology, cultural sociology, and political studies to build a layered explanatory framework that highlights the importance of individual feelings of group identity and threat for people's beliefs and actions; the significance of broader cultural repertoires and notions of national solidarity as a source and product of framing contests; and the diverse ways elites, power, and institutions affect notions of membership and deservingness

Citizenship · Environmental ethics · Feeling · Framing (construction · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology