Citizenship In Britain Research Articles

From teaching citizenship to learning democracy: overcoming individualism in research, policy and practice

In this article we argue for a shift in educational research, policy and practice away from teaching citizenship to an understanding of the ways young people learn democracy. In the first part of the article we identify the ways in which the discussion about citizenship in Britain has developed since the Second World War and show how a comprehensive understanding of citizenship, which has underpinned much recent thinking about citizenship education, has been replaced by a more overtly individualistic approach. In the second part of the article we delineate the key problems of this individualistic approach and make a case for an approach to citizenship education that takes as its point of departure the actual learning that occurs in the real lives of young people. In the concluding section, we outline the implications of our view for research, policy and practice.

Citizenship in Britain: values, participation and democracy

There are increasing concerns about changes in society and the economy which are undermining the effectiveness of democracy and weakening traditional conceptions of citizenship. What does it mean to be a British citizen in the early part of the twenty-first century? This book presents the first major empirical study of citizenship in Britain, comprising surveys of political participation and voluntary activities, and of the beliefs and values which underpin them. As well as presenting new data, the authors provide a sophisticated discussion of the concept of citizenship, and the consequences of a lack of civic engagement in a modern democracy. It examines why some people are 'good' citizens when others are 'bad' and it explores the consequences of citizenship for policy-makers and democracy. Comprehensive and accessible, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of civic attitudes in Britain today and will appeal to students, researchers and policy-makers.

Which People’s War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945, by Sonya O. Rose

<i>Which People’s War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945</i>, by Sonya O. Rose

Reviews of Books:Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain 1939-1945 Sonya O. Rose

Reviews of Books:Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain 1939-1945 Sonya O. Rose

Sonya O. Rose, Which people's war? National identity and citizenship in Britain, 1939–1945. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.) Pages xiii+328. £30.00.

Sonya O. Rose, <i>Which people's war? National identity and citizenship in Britain, 1939–1945</i>. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.) Pages xiii+328. £30.00.

The militant suffrage movement: citizenship and resistance in Britain, 1860-1930

The image of upper-class chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of votes for women have become visually synonomous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become lore among feminists, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political militancy in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mayhall examines the strategies that suffragettes employed to challenge the definitions of citizenship in Britain. She examines the resistance origins within liberal political tradition, its emergence during Britain's involvement in the South African War, and its enactment as spectacle. Enlarging the study of the militant campaign for suffrage, Mayhall analyzes not only its implications for the social history of gender but also, and more importantly, its connections to British political and intellectual history. This book is already being touted as a critical revisionist work in the history of suffrage in Britain.

Which people's war?: national identity and citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: National Identity and Citizenship 2. 'Who Killed Cock Robin?': The Wartime Nation and Class 3. 'Good-time' Girls and Quintessential Aliens 4. 'Be Truly Feminine': Contradictory Obligations and Ambivalent Representations 5. Temperate Heroes: Masculinity on the Home Front 6. Geographies of the Nation 7. 'The End is Bound to Come': Race, Empire, and Nation 8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts

Employment and Citizenship in Britain and France20022Edited by John Edwards and Jean‐Paul Révauger.Employment and Citizenship in Britain and France. Aldershot: Ashgate 2000. xiii + 282 pp., ISBN: 0 7546 1294 5 hardback

Employment and Citizenship in Britain and France20022Edited by John Edwards and Jean‐Paul Révauger.<i>Employment and Citizenship in Britain and France</i>. Aldershot: Ashgate 2000. xiii + 282 pp., ISBN: 0 7546 1294 5 hardback

Citizenship in Britain: Attitudes and Behaviour

The Political QuarterlyVolume 72, Issue s1 p. 141-148 Citizenship in Britain: Attitudes and Behaviour Patrick Seyd, Patrick Seyd University of Sheffield, UK,Search for more papers by this authorPaul Whiteley, Paul Whiteley University of Essex, UKSearch for more papers by this authorCharles Pattie, Charles Pattie University of Sheffield, UK,Search for more papers by this author Patrick Seyd, Patrick Seyd University of Sheffield, UK,Search for more papers by this authorPaul Whiteley, Paul Whiteley University of Essex, UKSearch for more papers by this authorCharles Pattie, Charles Pattie University of Sheffield, UK,Search for more papers by this author First published: 17 December 2002 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.72.s1.17Citations: 11AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume72, Issues1August 2001Pages 141-148 RelatedInformation

Young People, Citizenship and the Third Way: A Role for the Youth Service?

Citizenship is best understood as signifying a field of struggle: an arena in which relations linking individuals to their wider community, social and political contexts are continually discussed, reworked and contested. This paper explores the current preoccupation with citizenship in Britain, and relates this specifically to the challenges this presents for the youth service. The idea of active citizenship, first promulgated by the Conservative government in its attempt to mitigate the then triumphal New Right ethic of individual self-interest, has been seized on by the new Labour government as a central component of 'Third Way' politics-as a means of renewing civil society. How this may be communicated to, and engendered in young people remains, however, as contested an issue as the idea of citizenship itself. The 'tacit learning' for citizenship which takes place within youth work practice holds much promise, but for exactly this reason is also problematic because it cannot demonstrably project outcomes which are clearly formulated and measurable.

Political citizenship in Britain and Germany

A return to the theoretical wots of the concept of political citizenship justifies extending our attention to institutions outside the strictly political sphere. Social institutions in countries with corporatist histories, like Germany, remain important not only to the attainment of social citizenship but also to the exercise of political voice. Because the means of voice in Germany and Britain, or political citizenship, are the products of unique historical trajectories, the challenge of European integration is conceptually distinct for each. Thus, path dependent processes of democratisation may affect not just the likelihood but the normative significance of future choices.

`Now you see 'em, now you don't': Jewish visibility and the problem of citizenship in the British Telecom `Beattie' campaign

The use of a Jewish family as icons of the British middle class in British Telecom's famous `Beattie' campaign of the 1980s and early 1990s raises questions about the place of Jews in British cultural life. By connecting this episode in the history of Anglo-Jewry to more long-standing social dynamics and to recent arguments about advertising and citizenship, it becomes apparent that, rather than expressing a hard won enfranchisement through the democratizing field of consumption, these ads extend earlier forms of the perpetual qualification of Jewish citizenship in Britain.

Muslim and South Asian Women: Customary Law and Citizenship in Britain

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State Social Work and Social Citizenship in Britain: From Clientelism to Consumerism

Marshall's formulation of 'social citizenship' embodied a depoliticized understanding of what was seen as a given, progressive and irreversible stage of societal development, which encompassed the provision of state social work. A consequence of this approach was the failure to situate social citizenship in a specific political and policy context; in Marshall's case, the post-war British social democratic welfare state. Within this, a more central position was secured for state social work, through its unification and incorporation into bureau-professional regimes which were made responsible for responding to citizens' social needs as clients of the state. The New Right's attack on the institutionalization of social citizenship in bureau-professional regimes included the accusation that state social work had infringed service users' rights and produced a passive, dependent clientele. The New Right's alternative formulation of the 'consumer-citizen' led to the development of a new political consensus on social citizenship. Beginning from an acceptance of this consensus, procedural rights are seen as one way of extending social citizenship in state social work and as a precursor to the posssibility of wider participation by service users in its provision.

Managerialism and active citizenship in Britain's reformed health service: power and community in an era of decentralisation

The creation of a large managerial stratum within the British National Health Service in recent years has been one of the most striking characteristics of reforms intended to develop a more efficient and “business-like” service. An accompanying political rhetoric of decentralisation has cast local managerial autonomy as a means to gauge and respond more easily to the needs and preferences expressed by local communities. This article therefore reviews the growth of the new managerial stratum with particular regard to its emerging relationship with the local populations in whose name the organisational reforms have been wrought. The dominant political interpretation of this relationship — that the organisational reforms constitute a movement from leaden “bureaucratic” administration to more locally accountable and responsive managerial regimes — is then tested with regard to an in-depth study of two health authorities responsible for very different local populations. Results show that the role of local populations in influencing decisions and determining priorities is considerably less than inferred by the sustained political rhetoric in favour of the “local voices”. Consideration of possible trends in the state and economy suggests however that this disjuncture may not be explicable solely in terms of the new managerial stratum maximising its influence or of central government retaining a high degree of control.

Children and Citizenship in Britain

In the 1980s and 1900s there has been a substantial amount of discussion around notions of citizenship. Given the marginal treatment of children in mainstream sociology in the 1980s, it is small wonder that no mention is made of children in these discussions. This article challenges most conceptions of citizenship as they currently stand in their exclusion of children. It adopts a social model of citizenship that emphasizes the ways in which people are connected to each other, rather than being viewed as acting as individualized, autonomous, rational beings separate from each other. The idea that citizenship is conferred upon people according to a system of `rights' and `obligations' should by its very nature assume that people are connected with others in profound ways. Distilling notions of rights, duties and obligations to those of `individuals' elides the crucial importance of human association. If people's associations with others form the starting point of ideas of citizenship, then the location of children within that society becomes less problematic.

The Promise of Social Citizenship

Much of the recent upsurge in writing about citizenship in Britain has been prompted by concerns about state welfare. It is often maintained that social rights are the weakest link in T. H. Marshall’s trilogy of civil, political and social citizenship. This article considers arguments from different standpoints which claim to establish this position, and finds them wanting. However, there are problems with citizenship in any of its varieties: it is less inclusive a concept, even in theory, than many have thought, and needs to be buttressed by something external to it, namely sentiments of benevolence towards non-citizens and those whose citizenship is incomplete. The article looks at various ways of providing such buttressing, both from inside and outside the discourse on citizenship, and concludes that none of them are really satisfactory, given present and future challenges facing the welfare state.

Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain

The British Conservative Party has consistently portrayed itself as ‘the party of law and order’ but, despite high levels of investment in the criminal justice system since 1979, crime and disorder show no signs of diminishing. Against this background, this paper uses policy documents and debates in the House of Commons to examine key elements of the post-1979 Conservative Governments′ law and order policy programme. This programme, which draws inspiration from both the neo-liberal and neo-conservative strands of New Right doctrine, has important implications for the meaning of citizenship in Britain. The first part of the paper examines law and order policies which are creating spaces within which responsibility for the prevention of crime and the maintenance of order shifts from the state to civil society, a strategy by which the Government intends to foster citizenship by enhancing a sense of individual responsibility for the welfare of community. The second part of the paper, by contrast, focuses on particular pieces of recent legislation which allow increased penetration of civil society by the state, a development Government critics argue erodes citizenship by circumscribing the spaces within which people can act unhindered by political interference.

Voluntarism versus Jacobinism: Labor, Nation, and Citizenship in Britain, 1850–1950

How did working-class people understand their in the century following the decline of Chartism? This paper discusses the appeal of two contrasting constructions of the national identity and the place of the work ing class within it: voluntarism and Jacobinism. In the voluntarist construc tion, citizenship was located primarily within the associational culture of civil society and the state had a minimal role to play in the lives of working people. Freeborn Englishmen made their own citizenship within a polity that did no more than guarantee negative freedoms. Jacobinism, by con trast, constructed citizenship in a positive relationship between working class organizations and a powerful, transforming state. For Jacobinism the state was the organizer of the popular nation. Speaking very generally, the voluntarist model can be seen as characteristic of nineteenth-century working-class attitudes while Jacobinism reflects the early twentieth century, war-induced encounters between state expansion and working class politics. Voluntarism, however, did not go uncontested by more Jac obin attitudes before 1914, and Jacobinism was held in check through two world wars by the continuing appeal of a far-from-residual voluntarism. Before exploring these versions of citizenship in more detail, some clarification of working assumptions about the relationship between con ceptions of citizenship (and nationality) and conceptions of class is in or der. The central assumption is that identities (at least in complex modern societies) are both pluralistic and interdependent. Class and nation may sometimes place competing claims on individual loyalties, but neither ex ists alone, and they cannot be fully understood in isolation from one anoth er. Discourses of class involve claims about the place of the class in the nation, whether (as with Chartism) the sense of class is partly constituted by exclusion from citizenship, or whether patriotism is being used to ad vance the claims of excluded groups to full membership of the nation. Imagined communities of class and nation were constructed together.l Essentialist notions of class, consequently, are no more helpful to the study of popular mentalities than essentialist notions of nationality. If it is misleading to view national identity as the working out of some essential Englishness, it is no less misguided to treat class ideologically as the ultimate determinant of the destiny of popular political activity. While both class and nation constitute structures that powerfully condition the behav ior of individuals, neither can be understood merely as communities of

Gender, Welfare, and Citizenship in Britain during the Great War

Journal Article Gender, Welfare, and Citizenship in Britain during the Great War Get access Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 95, Issue 4, October 1990, Pages 983–1006, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/95.4.983 Published: 01 October 1990