INT 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individualism, Communitarianism, Welfare Rights

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Interdisciplinary Studies
• Course: INT 900
• Professor: John Shields

Document Summary

The welfare state and citizenship and the non-profit relationship: citizen engagement and. Citizenship and rights (being part of a community) Citizenship is about participation in or membership in a community (barbalet 1988) Active involved citizenship duty to the community. Citizenship is not generally about rights but also of the duty to take the interest of your community and to get involved. However, in the non-profit sector, citizenship is more about moral obligations and duties. Civil rights; individual freedom, speech, liberty, person. Political rights; 1800"s (vote, right to run for office, form a trade union) Social/socio-economic rights (linked to welfare state, labour struggles, women"s movement, active civil society) Unevenness of rights achievements but successive building. Active notion of what the state should do to promote positive citizenship rights. Citizenship rights and public institutions, as well as important place of nonprofits in provision and struggle for rights. Negative and positive duties of citizenship: legal obligations (negative, pay taxes, drafted into war)