Solidarity and Care in the Netherlands
In his chapter on solidarity, based on the theories of classical and modern sociologists, Van Oorschot (1998) defines solidarity as ‘an actual state of interrelations between individuals, groups and the larger society, which enables the collective interest to take priority over the interests of individuals or sub-collectivities’. In doing so, he seems to rephrase Durkheim’s organic solidarity. The Dutch health care system may cause one to wonder if such a definition enables us to grasp what solidarity really means. In our view, it makes the existing solidarity arrangements only partly visible. It takes solidarity on the macro-level into account, but not solidarity on the micro level, with regard to the delivery of informal care.
Solidarity. Reflections on an Emerging Concept in Bioethics. Summary
1. References to solidarity are currently on the increase in public discourse. In the UK and beyond, during economic crises and in a political climate where many feel that mutual assistance has lost currency, calls for a new and forceful emphasis on the meaning of solidarity are increasingly heard. Such appeals to solidarity are inevitably linked to ideas about how societies function, and about how and where the boundary between individual, familial, communal and societal spheres of responsibilities should be drawn.
Women and Politics in Early Tudor England
Political historians working on the early Tudor period have traditionally concentrated on institutions – monarchy, council, parliament, courts, and administrative bodies – that excluded women. The very definition of politics underlying the dominant historiography has thus made it seem both natural and inevitable to write history as if the world of high politics, the world that really counted, were exclusively male.