Divide and Conquer: Social Assistance Clients’ Competing Frames of Social Justice
基于对53位荷兰社会救助对象的访谈，研究区分了三种框架（权利、交易、礼物），揭示不同框架如何影响对社会正义的看法、情感及对其他救助对象的排斥，并指出条件性增强导致群体内部分裂。
Like many other countries, the Netherlands have witnessed increasing conditionality regarding the right to social assistance. To date, research paid little attention to how recipients themselves experience (in)justice in an increasingly conditional policy landscape. Based on 53 interviews with recipients, we distinguish three different ways of framing social assistance: as a right, a transaction, or a gift. Each frame gives way to particular ideas about social justice, legitimates different feelings and leads to othering of fellow social assistance recipients. Bringing together insights from the sociology of emotions and social justice literature, the article empirically shows the diversity of ideas and feelings regarding social justice, illuminates the role of framing and feeling rules in the process, and argues that increased conditionality produces steep divisions that undermine in-group solidarity.