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    Indignity in Cash Transfers: The Senior Citizen’s Grant in Uganda.Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):71-88.
    Although development policy approaches in Uganda and elsewhere have changed over time, many of them share a failure to consider and respond to the potential for shaming, given the persistent presence of social norms and practices shaped by poverty. Research evidence of the lived experiences and practices of the providers and beneficiaries of the Senior Citizens’ Grant antipoverty measure had spaces and a process of dignity building and shaming. The overriding policy implication that antipoverty policymakers need to be aware of (...)
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    Poverty and Shame: Interactional Impacts on Claimants of Chinese Dibao.Jian Chen & Lichao Yang - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):18-34.
    The Chinese minimum living standard guarantee, which has been in place since the 1990s, is one of the most important social assistance programs run by the Chinese government. There is extensive literature on dibao, a majority of which deals with how it is allocated in rural communities and its effectiveness in alleviating rural poverty. Receiving dibao is often considered a sign of poverty. Scholars have long discussed the shame experienced by people in poverty. However, very few empirical studies have paid (...)
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    Sisphyean Struggles: Encounters and Interactions within Two US Public Housing Programs.Erika Gubrium, Sabina Dhakal, Laura Sylvester & Aline Gubrium - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):89-108.
    We operationalize the concepts of rights, discretion, and negotiation in service provision at two public housing sites, exploring their connections to the generation of shame or dignity building for residents. Using data from in-depth interviews with housing residents and caseworkers, we found that resident rights were limited by a decentralized system that actively prevented them from taking control of their lives. Residents frequently experienced caseworker discretion as personally intrusive, yet there was some, if limited, space for negotiation between caseworkers offering (...)
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    Building Dignity?: Tracing Rights, Discretion, and Negotiation within a Norwegian Labor Activation Program.Erika Gubrium, Leah Johnstone & Ivar Lødemel - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):52-70.
    Within a Norwegian labor activation program for social assistance, we explore how the presence of a work-oriented ethos shapes and changes the balance of rights, discretion, and negotiation available to and marking the interactions between service providers and program participants. We trace connections between changed delivery interactions and heightened shame or enhanced dignity for participants. Two themes emerge, the first related to an imagined institutional trajectory of progress attached to labor activation in which participants were offered “more” and the second (...)
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    Antipoverty Measures: The Potential for Shaming and Dignity Building through Delivery Interactions.Erika Gubrium & Sony Pellissery - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):1-17.
    The special issue focuses on the impact of antipoverty measures—accounting for social and structural dimensions in the poverty experience and moving beyond an income-only focus—in five country cases: China, India, Norway, Uganda, and the United States. Particularly, we focus on the implications of shame in the delivery of antipoverty measures, as an individual and social phenomenon that relates to feelings of self-inadequacy, as well to a lack of dignity and recognition. We analyze delivery interactions through an analytic framework of rights, (...)
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    A Dignified Meal: Negotiated Spaces in India’s School Meal Program.Sony Pellissery, Sattwick Dey Biaswas & Biju Abraham - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (2):35-51.
    In human rights literature, human dignity is the foundation of human rights. Thus, scholarly literature has focused on rights to further enhance dignity. In this article, we argue that rights alone provide only a minimum of dignity. We examine India’s right to food legislation and its implementation in school meal programs. Based on our observations, we argue that discretion and negotiation are complementary institutional spaces that can be developed for the meaningful enjoyment of rights and thus dignity. The negotiations that (...)
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    How Our Collective Representations Affect the Future of the European Union.Jan Berting - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):124-137.
    Differences between various groups and classes in perceptions of social reality result in different interpretations of social and cultural events—collective representations—which can cause opposition and conflicts among social groups. This contribution analyzes this complex problem, especially in relation to two pivotal concepts: individualism and collectivism. In most political discussions, these concepts are used in opposition to each other, even though they are always interdependent. Moreover, in a modern society we can distinguish between seven types of individualism and six types of (...)
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  8. The Social Consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe: Euroscepticism, Populism, Nationalism, and Societal Division.Steve Corbett - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):11-31.
    This article examines the 2016 Referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union and draws on initial research into the reasons that the UK voted to leave and demographics of the leave vote. This initial analysis suggests that the Brexit vote reveals wider and deeper societal tensions along the lines of age, class, income, and education (). By providing an account of the background and events of the referendum, this article asserts that the vote was a case study (...)
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    Social Quality: Regaining Political Economy.Peter Herrmann - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):87-106.
    A fundamental methodological problem is the relevance of an antagonism of capitalism. This needs to be classified in light of the developmental stage of the means of production: far too little attention is paid to the contradictory character of individualization and socialization. This brings us to Karl Polányi’s main argument of disembedding. He also deals with a shift from the socially integrated individual to the utilitarian market citizen. The French regulationist theory offers a major step toward understanding new forms of (...)
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    Gender Parity and Equality in the Sultanate of Oman: A Case in Education for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries.Faryal Khan & Maricel Fernandez-Carag - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):67-86.
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    An Exogenous Path of Development: Explaining the Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China.Ka Lin, Dan Banik & Longfei Yi - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):107-123.
    Although the notion of corporate social responsibility has been largely Western driven, it has now also entered the popular discourse in many non-Western countries. In dissimilar social settings, the driving force of CSR development differs between its Western origins and its non-Western adaptors. This study examines the developmental dynamics of CSR in China, and how such force have influenced the CSR discourse in this country. This Chinese experience helps illustrate how an exogenous path of CSR development evolved in China. With (...)
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    Humanosphere Potentiality Index: Appraising Existing Indicators from a Long-term Perspective.Takahiro Sato, Mario Ivan López, Taizo Wada, Shiro Sato, Makoto Nishi & Kazuo Watanabe - 2016 - International Journal of Social Quality 6 (1):32-66.
    This research presents the Humanosphere Potentiality Index, developed to address current global potentiality from a long-term perspective. The HPI presents a different way to envision the current condition of the world, one that is compatible with a strong sustainability paradigm approach and demonstrates the significance of tropical countries for global sustainability. A comparison between HPI and the Human Development Index reveals a dominant developmental paradigm that justifies the HDI perspective, and comparisons between HPI and four popular environmental indicators provide insights (...)
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