Tag: citizenship and social class
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From ‘Chav’ to ‘Scrounger’ : Stigma and Social Class
Revised extract from ‘Britain and its Poor’ Revolting Subjects The word ‘Chav’ is now so banal – mouthed openly by primary school children (and sometimes by their teachers)- it has been depleted as the de rigueur class pejorative amongst teenagers, university students, journalists and others concerned with “fashionable” practices of name-calling. In place of ‘chav’ we have a new vocabulary of class disgust…
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1979 Goodbye Nanny Welfare State, Hello Neoliberal Daddy State: Citizen Smith, Thatcherism and the “Loony Left”
Citizen Smith, Thatcherism and the “Loony Left” We have heard these scroungers and benefit cheats stories before… In “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936), Keynes argued for an interventionist state which, through mechanisms such as taxation, would operate as a check to the free market. For Keynes, writing in the context of…
Professor Imogen Tyler 