Reading and Note-Taking

1. Read: Cohen, M, 2010, ‘T.H. Marshall’s “Citizenship and Social Class”’, Dissent Magazine, 57(4): 81-85. (5 pages)

 

a. Write a half page (A4) summary of Marshall’s argument about why social rights are essential to aid individuals to fully enjoy their political civil rights. Explain Marshall’s reasoning.

 

b. Do the following based on the article and on your own reflections:

i. List some specific individual rights under each of the three headings (Political, Civil and Social). If you are having trouble thinking of specific rights, have a look at one or more of these documents: The UN Declaration of Human Rights (see the 30 articles); The UK Human Rights Act (1998); The American Bill of Rights; The French Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens (1789)

 

ii. Do you agree with TH Marshall that Social Rights are needed in order for citizens to enjoy their political and civil rights fully? Explain why or why not.

 

iii. Find a concrete example of how a lack of material resources or social rights could be said to impact on the ability of an individual to access full political or civil rights.

 

2. Watch the following video in which political philosopher and author of (2012) What Money Can’t Buy, Michael Sandel, makes an argument against the marketization of society. Michael Sandal, “Why we shouldn’t trust markets with our civic life,” TedTalks, You Tube (under 15 minutes)

a. What does Sandel mean when he says that marketization is “hollowing out our democracy”?

b. Do you agree with this view? Explain why or why not.

c. Would you characterise Sandel’s argument as “liberal” – or something else?

3. Read Lynch, Timothy, J, 2013, The death of Margaret Thatcher and the Legacy of ‘Thatcherism’, The Conversation.(3-4 pages)

a. Why did Margaret Thatcher believe that the free market and capitalism were essential for liberty?

b. how might the welfare state and state intervention in the economy be viewed as threatening to human freedom?

c. Do you agree with these views? Explain why or why not.

 

How to Submit your Work

Submit your notes to the Turnitin portal for your seminar tutor. We encourage you to handwrite your notes and answers and to take a photo of all your pages in one shot with a smart phone and then upload that to Turnitin. Please save your photo as a pdf.

If you find it hard to handwrite for whatever reason, or you are not able to photograph your notes with a smart phone, then you are free to type your notes up as you did previously.

Inside the document, whether hand written or typed, include your name, student number, seminar tutor’s name, and the section headings from this sheet so we can easily see which parts you are answering.

Please save the file as: “Your Full Name, Exercise Sheet 8”. Submit your work by 12:00 noon on Monday, November 9th through the appropriate Turnitin submission portal in the Week 5 Folder on Bb.

Ongoing module info you are expected to know:

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