Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Jensen

This article critically examine how Benefits Street - and the broader genre of poverty porn television - functions to embed new forms of ‘commonsense’ about welfare and worklessness. It argues that such television content and commentary crowds out critical perspectives with what Pierre Bourdieu (1999) called ‘doxa’, making the social world appear self-evident and requiring no interpretation, and creating new forms of neoliberal commonsense around welfare and social security. The article consider how consent for this commonsense is animated through poverty porn television and the apparently ‘spontaneous’ (in fact highly editorialized) media debate it generates: particularly via ‘the skiver’, a figure of social disgust who has re-animated ideas of welfare dependency and deception.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 010
Author(s):  
Francisco Villacorta Baños

A book published in 2012 included the publication of the lecture course on the State delivered by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France. The course was given at a time when Bourdieu’s work had reached full maturity, and it completed, at the most generic level of significance —in the “geometral of all perspectives”— the analytical potential opened up by the main categories he used to approach the social world: habitus, field and, above all, capital or symbolic power, the true core of uncontested legitimacy and of the omnipresent domination that the state has acquired in the contemporary world.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Brenda Vivian Rico Rios

Pierre Bourdieu constantemente señaló que el mundo social es historia acumulada. Por tanto, a partir de esa historia encarnada los agentes se posicionan dentro de un mundo social establecido previamente a su propia existencia. El presente artículo pretende poner en marcha las ideas de Bourdieu a partir de un socio análisis en los puntos nodales de su vida, aquellos que definieron su pensamiento y su mirada al mundo: por un lado las coyunturas políticas y sociales de su contexto social, el Mayo Francés y la Independencia de Argelia; por otro lado, su vida personal, siendo oriundo de una ciudad al norte de Francia, se confrontó a distintos campos sociales al estudiar el liceo en Paris, motivo que lo hace reflexionar sobre el papel de los capitales económicos y culturales dentro de campos sociales. La epistemología de su pensamiento sirve de referencia para la comprensión de los conceptos centrales que formula: el habitus, los campos y los capitales. Para el científico social, el socioanálisis como método, puede servir para transformar problemas de la propia existencia en problemas científicos, generando de esta manera una propia sociología. Pierre Bourdieu constantly pointed out that the social world is accumulated history. Therefore, from that accumulated history we position ourselves within a social world established prior to our own existence. This article aims to launch Bourdieu’s ideas from a socio-analysis at the nodal points of his life, those that defined his thinking and his outlook on the world: on the one hand, the political and social conjunctures of his social context, the May 68 and the Independence of Algeria; On the other hand, his personal life, being a native of a city in the north of France, he confronted different fieldworks when he studied at the Lyceum in Paris, which makes him reflect on the role of economic capital and cultural capital within social fields. The epistemology of his critical thinking serves as a reference for understanding his central concepts: habitus, fields and capitals. For the social scientist, socio-analysis can be used to transform common problems into scientific problems, thus generating an own sociology.


ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
Yoyoh Hereyah

The phenomenon which becomes the object is the identity contestation Salafiyah veiled women in the Salafism community in Public Space. The concept of habitus and field's Pierre Bourdieu has a very important role, because this concept describes how the cultural production in the social world. Habitus is the rules inherent in a person and structured tendency to think, feel and act in certain ways, which then encourages the individual to behave and act in the social field. While the field is structured realm where individuals behave to controlled. ConstructivistStructuralist paradigm-particularly relevant used in this study because it provides viewpoints and limits palpable in research to explore the phenomenon of veiled women in public space. Research carried out by focus on a small portion of the community Salafiyah Muslim groups. Based on this research can be concluded that the communication in the group that carried out by Salafiyah community members indeed have a very important role to push contestation identity of veiled women in public domain. Reproducing the Habitus based system, which is constructed by the individual earlier andinherited by channeling message agencies to community's Salafiyah now and will continue in the next Salafiyah community members.


1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
Fran Bennett

A new chief executive of the Benefits Agency, and a new chairperson of the Social Security Advisory Committee, have been appointed. In its response to the Social Security Committee's recent report on social security expenditure, the government revealed that by 1992/3, 30 per cent of individuals were living in households receiving at least one means-tested benefit. In November 1994, there were 5.7 million income support claimants, with just under 1 million partners and 3.2 million other dependants; almost 1.7 million claimants had one or more deductions from their weekly income support (25:1/97, 1.7; 24:3/95, 1.3). In May 1994, more than 3 million people had been claiming income support for more than two years (24:2/94, 1.1). An Institute of Economic Affairs (EEA) report claimed that recent governments' tax and benefit policies have played a central role in increasing welfare dependency.


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