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This chapter aims at furthering the debates raised by the previous contributions. Three main proposals for studying welfare policies’ target publics are introduced. Firstly, this chapter calls for breaking from a study of the welfare State carried out only by social policy specialists. It sheds light on the heuristic gain to be made from the import of political sociology’s traditional questioning in this field of research. Secondly, it underlines the need to consider in which way social policies participate to the contemporary reconfiguration of governmentality. Thirdly, it opens new perspectives of research on policy-feedback, by thinking together the social and political effects of welfare State transformations.
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Here, the French sociologist points to the social structures (incorporated under the form of social dispositions but not exclusively) weighing on situations of interaction.
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The question is borrowed from Philippe Bezès in his analysis of the French State reforms (2009).
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On these issues of “intersectionality”, see above all (Crenshaw 1989).
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For a critical discussion of this type of enterprise of classification of social stratification (Hugrée et al. 2017).
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Analytical distinguishing between social and political effects must not bring us to obscure the fact that politics are intrinsically constituted by social relations (Lacroix 1985).
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For a recent overview, see Gonthier (2017).
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This approach’s central assumption is that the political system’s stability relies mainly on the majority’s belief in the system’s legitimacy.
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Barrault-Stella, L., Weill, PE. (2018). Perspectives on Target Publics and Welfare State Transformations. A Few Proposals from Political Sociology. In: Barrault-Stella, L., Weill, PE. (eds) Creating Target Publics for Welfare Policies. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89596-3_10
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