Egalitarianism in Scandinavia Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bendixsen, Synnøve (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bringslid, Mary Bente (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vike, Halvard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
• Θέματα: Ethnology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnography.; Welfare state.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Social Anthropology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The chapters engage with issues related to social class, political conflict, the emergence of the welfare state, public policy, and conceptualizati...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Cultural Construction of Equality in Norden
• 3. The Cradle of Norwegian Equality and Egalitarianism - Norway in the 19th Century
• 4. Critiquing the View from Within: "Likhet" is not Equality
• 5. Social Imaginaries of Equality in an Age of Financialization/Neoliberalization
• 6. Egalitarianism, Mobilization, and Resistance
• 7. Normative Hierarchy and Pragmatic Egalitarianism in Municipal Policy Development
• 8. Care and Control in the Clinic: - How Deep into their Lives can we Really go?
• 9. Experiencing the Welfare State: Sick Leave and Local Culture
• 10. Social Differences in Health as a Challenge to the Danish Welfare State
• 11. Irregular Migrants and the Norwegian Welfare State.- 12. Reshaping Egalitarian Practices: Vocational Youth between Schooling, Industry, and Popular Culture in Rural Norway.- 13. Equality and Fairness: Some Comparative Perspectives
• 14. The (In)egalitarian Dynamics of 'Gender Equality' in Contemporary Norway
• 15. Conditioned Belonging: Middle-class Ethnic Minorities in Norway
• 16. Riding along in the Name of Equality: Everyday Demands on Refugee Children to Conform to Local Bodily Practices of "Danishness".