User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Social Policy
- Vol. 9 (26) , 5-18
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026101838900902601
Abstract
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enables us to become producers rather than consumers of our own welfare.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Citizenship and social powerCritical Social Policy, 1989
- A theory of human needsCritical Social Policy, 1984