#BritishSocialAttitudes to #benefits are not as negative as they seem - t.co/5BIDIhQoz2 @UnemployedNet Year after year, when the British Social Attitudes (#BSA) survey is released, newspaper headlines tell us of how our attitudes to benefits have hardened, feeding this into their wider discussions about the unpopularity of welfare, how our attitudes to one another have changed, and how the major parties should respond. Visit British Social Attitudes website to read analyst t.co/5BIDIhQoz2 Last year was an exception, with headlines instead telling us that our attitudes might now be softening, although in my chapter in this year’s report I show how this softening was probably illusory. But all of this talk of hardening and softening can be misleading. The singular strength of British Social Attitudes is that it allows us to see changes over time – yet we often become so obsessed with the change in the latest data that we forget to actually look at what people are telling us. And when we look at this closely, we do not see the complete collapse of support for the benefits system that many people seem to believe.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:05:11 +0000
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