Class standards as the basis for access to new social policies to address vital precarity
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Joan Cortinas Muñoz
Abstract
This research seeks to explore the norms and criteria used by social services employees in advising on a day- to-day basis about access to public mechanisms de- signed to fight against precariousness. This is done based on an analysis of the Renta Mínima de Inserción (Minimum Income Guarantee, RMI). This paper supports the thesis that those norms and criteria are sustained by a middle-class ethos transmitted by the agents re- sponsible for access to the RMI system — social work- ers. For the popular classes who do not share this ethos, access to the RMI does not only adhere to objec- tive criteria established by the regulations — level of income, residency, ... — but rather to much more ran- dom criteria linked to the worker's subjectivity.
How to Cite
Cortinas Muñoz, J. (2012). Class standards as the basis for access to new social policies to address vital precarity. Papeles De Identidad, 2012(2). https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.12463
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Keywords
poverty, Minimum Income Guarantee, social work, life precariousness
Section
Research Articles
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