The Tools to Be Free
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6013-6 (ISBN)
Linking broad-based public service to post-secondary education is the best way to make our society more free. Access to college ought to be a social right of citizenship. The core idea in T.H. Marshall’s concept of social citizenship is that, in addition to civil and political rights, people hold social rights, including guarantees to housing, health care, basic income, and, especially, an adequate education. These are resources we all need to participate in society as full and equal members. In America, opponents of these guarantees have effectively mobilized deeply held liberal ideas, arguing that state action is a threat to freedom. Against this, progressive arguments about fairness have fallen flat. Looking outside liberalism, this book offers a new approach. It argues, first, the civic republican tradition provides an authentically American basis for the social rights of citizenship. Republicanism understands that true freedom requires a degree of personal independence. The ultimate justification for egalitarian policies, especially in education, is that they make us more free. Second, our first major policy step in this direction ought to be adopting a large-scale service-to-school program designed to increase access to post-secondary education.
Stephen Minicucci is a political scientist trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Preface: The Turn Not Taken
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Main Elements of the Argument
Part I: Social Citizenship
Chapter 1: What Is Social Citizenship?
Chapter 2: Social Citizenship and Social Policy
Chapter 3: Education as a Social Right
Part II: Finding An American Social Citizenship
Chapter 4: Traditional Liberalism and Social Rights
Chapter 5: Education in a Liberal Society
Chapter 6: The Civic Republican Basis for Social Rights
Chapter 7: Dealing with the Fact of Conservatism
Chapter 8: New Liberalisms and Republican Revivals
Chapter 9: Social Rights and Egalitarian Liberalism
Part III: A Path Forward
Chapter 10: An American Social Citizenship
Chapter 11: A Service-to-School Program for Social Citizenship
Afterword: Getting There From Here
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-6013-6 / 1666960136 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-6013-6 / 9781666960136 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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