Politics 311 - Deservingness in U.S.Social Policy Beechey

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Whitman College

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Why are some beneficiaries of social policy coded as deserving assistance from the government while others are marked as undeserving What impacts do these notions of deservingness have on social policies and the politics which surround them What are the consequences for the material realities of individual lives How do gender, race, class, and citizenship status work together to construct and maintain distinctions of deservingness This course engages with these and other questions through historic and contemporary debates in U.S. social policies such as welfare, Social Security, and disability benefits. Distribution area: social science; alternative voices.

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3.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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