The Economic Vulgate of Welfare Reform福利改革的经济庸俗

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1、S138CurrentAnthropologyVolume55,Supplement9,August2014TheEconomicVulgateofWelfareReformElementsforaSocioanthropologicalCritiquebyVincentDuboisEconomicconceptshaveadoublestatus.Theyareelaboratedforscientificpurposes,buttheyarealsousedintherealworld,espec

2、iallybydecisionmakers.InthispaperIfocusonthelatteraspectandaddressthequestionoftheusesoftheseconceptsinwelfarereform.Ibasemyreflectionsonthecaseoftherenewalofwelfare-controlpolicyinFrance.Findingsfromethnographicfieldworkonthedailypracticesofwelfarecontr

3、olprovidetheoccasiontoconfronttheeconomicvulgateofwelfarereformwiththeactualsituationsofwelfarerecipientsandgroundacriticalevaluationoftheeffectofreformsinspiredbythisvulgate.BydoingsoIproposeabasisforasocioanthropologicalcritiqueofthepoliticalimplicat

4、ionsofeconomicconcepts.Animportantpartofmyresearchonanti-welfare-fraudpol-bureaucraticcriteriapoorlyaccountfortheunstableandcon-iciesinFranceconsistsofethnographicfieldworkduringfusedrealityofsocialandeconomicprecariousness.Asare-whichIobservedtheencoun

5、tersbetweenrecipientssuspectedsult,therecipientsinthemostprecarioussituationsarealsoofcheatingandinvestigatorswhocontroltheirfamilysitu-themostcontrolledandthemostsanctioned.Thisisalsothe1ation,income,andgeneralbehavior.Thecontrolinterviewsreasonwhywel

6、fare-fraudinvestigatorscannotonlyrelyonoftheunemployedtakeplaceatthelocalemploymentde-thelegalrulestheyaresupposedtoenforce.Becauseofthepartmentwheretheyaresummonedandattherecipients’2homesforthosereceivingminimumbenefits.Theserecipi-1.Thispaperispartof

7、abroaderresearchprojectonthecontrolofentsarerarelytheastuteswindlersdescribedbypoliticalandwelfarerecipientsinFrance.Itisbasedonmaterialcollectedintwomainmediadiscourses.Someofthemdoplaythewelfaregamesurveys.Iconductedthefirstonebetween2001and2003.Itfoc

8、usedonquitewell.These“proto-professionals”(deSwaan1988)maythecontrolofrecipientsofminimumbenefits(mostlytheRevenumin-beknowledgeableaboutwelfareprogramsandthemeanstoimumd’insertion[RMI]andtheAllocationdeparentisole´[API])en-forcedbytheCa