A Study Of Social Citizenship Rights

The core element of social citizenship rights is combing social rights with citizen status, and the concept of social citizenship rights is commonly defined as"from the right to a modicum of economic welfare and security to the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in the society."By systematically exploring an academic foundation of the category of social citizenship rights, this dissertation attempts to explain the validity of analyzing social right problems from the perspective of citizenship theory, as well as some regions deserved our reflections. The dissertation emphasizes that the concept of social right applied in it don't belong to a human rights category, and tries to analyze this topic from a non-jurisprudential perspective, moreover, the practice of social rights in western developed countries is its main referenced backgrounds. We hope this discussion may offer some referenced meanings to China's social welfare practice as well as to thinking how to combine the universalism of the concept of citizenship with the historicism of the practice of social rights.The dissertation consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 briefly analyzes a historical development of the concept of social citizenship rights. Based on the foundation of treating Poor Law, the school of Oxford Idealism and T.H.Marshall's citizenship theory as transverse sections, this chapter makes a lengthways review of the historical development. It emphatically discusses two aspects: what transformations of the liberalism theory has resulted in people's gradual acceptance of the social right which essentially belongs to positive rights; the validity and deficiency of the concept of social citizenship rights derived from T.H.Marshall.Chapter 2 mainly discusses thoughts on social rights from different perspectives of citizenship. We divide perspectives into two types in order to be convenient for the analysis, and the content structure is arranged along with several theories which once discussed the thesis of citizenship or at least can build some potential relations with that thesis. Generally speaking, R.Titmuss, R.Plant and J.Rawls' theories express a liberal conception of citizenship which is the main vindicator of social citizenship rights; the...