Clients, usagers et suspects : les mots de la protection sociale en Grande-Bretagne et en France
Even a rather primitive quantitative processing of the vocabulary used by welfare institutions and national Parliaments leads to significant results. At the very least, they highlight differences in official communication strategies. In Britain, the presentation of social issues has changed signific...
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| description | Even a rather primitive quantitative processing of the vocabulary used by welfare institutions and national Parliaments leads to significant results. At the very least, they highlight differences in official communication strategies. In Britain, the presentation of social issues has changed significantly under New Labour. The deserving claimant no longer occupies centre stage. He has been replaced by an autonomous individual, who is encouraged to make choices, and accept the duties that go with them. Choice is promoted even in sectors where it is of low relevance, such as the NHS, which remains universal, egalitarian, and free at the point of delivery. In the field of housing, choice is mostly exerted by stakeholders who conform to agreed rules, and is an element of social control. The gap between reality and ‘representation’ is therefore extremely wide, which is probably significant in terms of official strategies. In France the welfare system is typically described in institutional, administrative terms, sometimes bordering on the bureaucratic, which hardly relate to the current debates on the future of social protection. |
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