SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Social Capital
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Diversity and rights in the pluralist welfare state. Remedies for injustices : affirmative remedy : resolve inequality from power relations and social organization without challenging the relations that cause the injustice, transformative remedies : restructure underlying framework of power to address inequality. Example : socioeconomic inequality - affirmative remedy would be to relocate resources such as grants in-aid to reserves, but a transformative remedy would to honour their land claims and right to self determination. Targeted approaches: top down - assessment of needs defined by administrator (policy maker, standardization & essentialism (everything has a defined set of characteristics) Diversity approach: bottom-up - subjective & self determined, no such thing as one unified citizen or community. Cultural recognition of indigenous peoples: importance of cultural recognition remedies to support desistance amongst. E. g. , women groups in policy making roles, aboriginal child welfare, equal rights for.
