{"id":909,"date":"2014-03-17T19:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=909"},"modified":"2017-08-01T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:52:35","slug":"neoliberal-governance-and-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Neoliberal Governance and Hegemony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is\u00a0<\/span>homelessness considered a normal part of our society? Why have many people learned to comply with social inequality? Why is providing housing to poor people seen as increasing their dependence on the government and decreasing their drive to become self-reliant individuals able to compete in the global market? \u00a0Why in \u00a0America \u00a0today\u00a0<\/span>families\u00a0<\/span>make too much money to qualify for federal assistance but not enough to pay their bills? Its important to look at the systemic oppression that has perpetuated throughout American history. It is no mystery that the same stereotypes of the deviant homeless are repeated each decade. \u00a0 The US can be currently characterized by issues of systemic inequalities such as increasing class exploitation economic restructuring and declining relatives wages.\u00a0Racial injustice, unequal educational opportunities, and gendered inequality are components of homelessness.Racial injustice, unequal educational opportunities, and gendered inequality are components of homelessnses.\u00a0Recent American history demonstrates that people who speak out and politically resist social inequalities risk being punished and putting their economic position in jeopardy.\u00a0<\/span>We live in a system where people are afraid to put themselves at risk of loosing any of their relative privilege. \u00a0Lyon -Callo hypothesizes that the hegemony of deviant homeless establishes “naturalness” of current economic and social relations to prevent homeless people and shelter staff from challenging structural inequality which creates homelessness. \u00a0He argues Neoliberal governance creates common sense through its hegemony \u00a0of compliance with the conditions creating homelessness. He argues, Neoliberal development of government institutions, trained experts, and professional reformers like social workers, urban planners, teachers, health services and police are created to “manage” and “regulate” the lives of the poor in the interest of normalizing them. Therefore he explains that practices intended to resolve homelessness contribute to its maintenance. As students what can we do to challenge the system, “common sense” and systemic social inequality? I want to become a social worker who does not participate and contribute to the maintanance of \u00a0this oppression. \u00a0Currently, while working \u00a0at a homeless youth shelter, I want to participate in Lyon-Callo’s discourse and observe any social inequality that may be unconsciously perpetuated. I want to be an activist in bringing this discourse to light, educate others and participate in a non-profit organization which counters this social inequality.<\/p>\n

Callo, Vincent.\u00a0Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2004. Print.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is\u00a0homelessness considered a normal part of our society? Why have many people learned to comply with social inequality? Why is providing housing to poor people seen as increasing their dependence on the government and decreasing their drive to become self-reliant individuals able to compete in the global market? \u00a0Why in \u00a0America \u00a0today\u00a0families\u00a0make too much … Continue reading Neoliberal Governance and Hegemony<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-eF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}