The expansion of social citizenship in the 20th century mitigated the brute effects of economic inequality in people's lives. The new rights also created new social divisions, however, separating citizens according to their ability to do well through them. In the 21st century the conceptual matrix of citizenship has developed further, powered by new technologies that have promised new freedoms and opportunities in every aspect of people's lives. As the scope of economic and social incorporation has broadened, the possibilities for classifying, sorting, slotting, and scaling people have also grown and diversified. Echoing the earlier rise of the meritocracy, this new matrix produces its own winners and losers, partly recycling old inequalities, and partly creating new ones. Demands for self‐care and individual fitness pile up, eroding the universal and solidaristic basis upon which the expansion of citizenship historically thrived. In its place stands what I call “ordinal citizenship,” a form of social inclusion that thrives on social measurement, differentiation, and hierarchy.

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普通公民

20 世纪社会公民身份的扩大减轻了人们生活中经济不平等的残酷影响。然而，新的权利也造成了新的社会分裂，根据公民通过这些权利做好事的能力来区分他们。在 21 世纪，公民的概念矩阵得到了进一步发展，新技术为人们生活的各个方面带来了新的自由和机会。随着经济和社会融合范围的扩大，对人进行分类、分类、定位和缩放的可能性也越来越大和多样化。与早期的精英统治相呼应，这个新矩阵产生了自己的赢家和输家，部分回收了旧的不平等，部分创造了新的不平等。自我保健和个人健身的需求不断增加，侵蚀了公民身份扩张在历史上蓬勃发展的普遍和团结的基础。取而代之的是我所说的“有序公民”，一种在社会衡量、差异化和等级制度上蓬勃发展的社会包容形式。