Bread and Roses: Social re-presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12909

Itziar Guerendiain-Gabás, Maitane Arnoso-Martínez, Lorena Gil de Montes

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Abstract

The social debate on Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) has been growing in recent years. While the academic literature on social attitudes towards UBI has exploded, qualitative studies analysing the nuances and ideological conflicts that shape public debate remain scarce. Drawing on (action-oriented) social representations theory and conceptions of social order, this study aims to delve into the shared meanings and arguments through which UBI is socially re-presented, as well as the ideological objectives pursued by these arguments. To do so, we conducted a reflexive thematic analysis of 26 individual interviews conducted in the Basque Country. We generated four main themes: (1) Origins of social inequality; (2) The right to a good life; (3) Accessibility: Who should get a UBI; (4) Feasibility in the current system. Results indicated that the re-presentation for UBI is anchored in socially disputed values of equality and freedom, which are objectified into conceptions of distributive justice and group stereotypes. This meaning-making process seems to be conditioned by a social context marked by capitalist realism and political despair. We discuss these results from a theoretical and applied perspective, extending our understanding of how people collectively reason about UBI and what social-psychological processes underpin it.

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面包和玫瑰：巴斯克地区无条件基本收入的社会再现

近年来，关于无条件基本收入（UBI）的社会争论日益激烈。虽然关于社会对全民基本收入态度的学术文献激增，但分析影响公众辩论的细微差别和意识形态冲突的定性研究仍然很少。利用（行动导向的）社会表征理论和社会秩序概念，本研究旨在深入探讨全民基本收入在社会上重新呈现的共同意义和论点，以及这些论点所追求的意识形态目标。为此，我们对在巴斯克地区进行的26个个人访谈进行了反身性专题分析。我们产生了四个主要主题：(1)社会不平等的起源；（二）享有美好生活的权利；(3)可及性：谁应该获得全民基本收入；(4)现行制度的可行性。结果表明，全民基本收入的重新呈现植根于社会争议的平等和自由价值观，这些价值观被客观化为分配正义和群体刻板印象的概念。这种意义创造过程似乎受到以资本主义现实主义和政治绝望为标志的社会背景的制约。我们从理论和应用的角度讨论了这些结果，扩展了我们对人们如何集体推理全民基本收入以及支撑全民基本收入的社会心理过程的理解。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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