SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS How important are social citizenship rights in tackling inequalities in contemporary society?

How important are social citizenship rights in tackling inequalities in contemporary society?

Introduction

Social Citizenship rights have been a serious topic of discussion in order to distinguish between the right and wrong that takes place in a society. These days, in today's modern era of rapid development and expansion, maintaining keen consideration and concern regarding giving rights to individuals has become a mirage that has dwindled many researchers into barely a murmur. The paper covers the components and aspects of social citizenship right in a holistic context, discussing issues, hindrances, problems and discussions at length. This paper elaborates the arguments and evidence for equal treatment that should be on facts. The key importance of citizenship rights is to create contemporary market and competitive-market economies that depend on the freedom, which depend on free citizens.

In modern immigration's epoch, a dispute is under consideration for liberal and democratic countries. The aim of this dispute is to extend right beyond citizens to permanent and settled. The basis of this dispute is on equity principles: obey the laws, settled citizens with fair pay taxes, subject to market's vicissitude that affect noncitizen and citizen alike and other community and social obligations. A citizen while he enters into contractual obligations, he has enough confidence that enforcement procedure is existed for supporting his legitimacy of contractual obligations.

Discussion and Analysis

Social Citizenship Rights entail to protect and secure the rights and freedom of an individual by means of ensuring physical safety and integrity, gender, race, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, protect from discrimination and so on. A research shows that British Government has supposed to be a socialist policy which's primary concern is about the place of market in a predominantly statement socialist economy. A scholar, Sen. has provided a brief distinction that highlight and reflects Britten contemporary conditions (Wilkinson, 2009, 96-110). Social freedom utters the triumph of democracy as the form of policy of organization over its alternatives. The accountability and responsibility should be practiced to serve the citizenship rights in a society.

Importance of social citizenship

Citizenship is a concept that refers to the relationship between a person and the political system in whose realm of authority the person lives. It consists of at least four dimensions, namely membership, practice/participation, identity and rights. This should understand as a dynamic concept, which describes a “social practice” instead of restricting, rather statically, to formal assignment of membership rights (Pearce, 2005, 67-78).

Social citizenship rights comprise both, individual welfare entitlements (e.g. education, employment, pensions), and collective rights (e.g. to form trade unions, to make collective agreements) and are to be found in all European welfare states, though in different configurations, hereby establishing a basis of what is called the European Social Model. Clearly, citizenship is a social value. Thus, the high importance of citizenship as a socially approved value indicates the concept of "honorary citizenship", which conveys the meaning of a symbolic link of a certain person with the State or ...