This paper outlines the concept of social citizenship, which was first theorised in the late 1940s alongside the creation of the UK welfare state, and concerns citizens’ rights to a basic income and standard of living. It suggests that social citizenship – particularly welfare provision – is a useful and important topic for social psychological research, albeit one that has been largely overlooked. We provide an overview of key developments in social citizenship, and consider the impact of 30-plus years of neoliberal governance in Western democracies, which has resulted in ongoing changes to how welfare rights and responsibilities are configured, such as policies that make social citizenship rights contingent on conduct. We outline social scientific work that examines these shifting ideas of citizenship, personhood, welfare and conditionality, and make the case for a critical discursive psychological approach, which we illustrate with a brief empirical example. We suggest that critical discursive social psychology is particularly well placed to examine how psychological assumptions are built into both policy and lay discourse, and how these can legitimate interventions designed to work on the conduct of the unemployed, such as therapeutic and behaviour change initiatives. Finally, we argue that psychology is faced with a choice: while there are opportunities for the discipline to contribute to the design and implementation of such initiatives, to do so requires accepting the basic values of the underpinning neoliberal agenda. Instead, it is vital to place these assumptions under the critical microscope and explore how they work to obscure structural disadvantage.

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社会公民身份与社会心理学

本文概述了社会公民身份的概念，该概念在1940年代后期与英国福利国家的建立同时被首次提出，并涉及公民享有基本收入和生活水平的权利。它表明，社会公民身份，尤其是福利的提供，是社会心理学研究的一个有用而重要的主题，尽管这一主题在很大程度上被忽视了。我们概述了社会公民权的主要发展，并考虑了30多年的新自由主义治理对西方民主国家的影响，这导致了对福利权利和责任的配置方式的不断变化，例如制定社会公民权的政策视行为而定。我们概述了社会科学工作，这些工作研究了公民身份，人格，福利和条件等这些不断变化的观念，并提出一种批判性的话语心理学方法，我们将通过一个简短的经验例子加以说明。我们建议批判性话语社会心理学尤其适合研究如何将心理假设构建到政策和非专业话语中，以及这些假设如何使旨在干预失业者行为的干预措施（例如治疗和行为改变计划）合法化。最后，我们认为心理学面临一种选择：尽管该学科有机会为此类倡议的设计和实施做出贡献，但要做到这一点就需要接受新自由主义议程的基本价值。相反，至关重要的是将这些假设置于关键显微镜下，并探索它们如何消除结构上的不利条件。