POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Progressive Tax, Exxonmobil, Dow Chemical Company

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 320
• Professor: Sadif Arat- Koc

Document Summary

Social class, the welfare state and inequalities of citizenship. T. h marshall"s expectations of the radical potential of social rights. Class abatement is still the aim of social rights, but it has acquired a new meaning. It is no longer merely an attempt to abate the obvious nuisance of destitution in the lowest ranks of society It is no longer content to raise the floor-level in the basement of the social edifice, leaving the superstructure as it was. It has begun to remodel the whole building, and it might even end by converting a skyscraper into a bungalow. (marshall, 1965: p. Marshall had high expectations for the welfare state could achieve in terms of elimination of some major social and class inequality. He used the metaphor bungalow vs skyscraper. He expected the introduction of social rights (welfare state) to have significant progress. Marshall"s expectation: the implication of the significance of social rights for full/equal citizenship.