People always try to find loop holes in the systems, so they can get money or what they want depending on which benefits. In my opinion, people need to stop trying to find loop holes and just follow the system. The benefits are there for a reason and it is for people who are in need. An essay called “A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State” by Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon is about welfare dependency being talked about in politics and getting public assistance is for people who are known as dependency. They also discuss why it is so negative for some people. Fraser and Gordon seek to dispel the common belief of current U.S. discussions of dependency by redefining the term dependency. They will do this by contrasting the present meanings of dependency with its past meanings. They believe that dependency is an ideological term. This means that the term means differently to everyone because people have their own opinions and beliefs. I agree, with the …show more content…
These women are active with the welfare system. They believe people should be claiming rights instead of charity. They also mentioned that their domestic labor was necessary. Their help redeveloped the arguments for welfare. During the period in which NWRO activism was at its height, historians developed a new interpretation of the welfare state as a structure of social control. Fraser and Gordon explained how the historians of social control told their story mainly from the perspective of the helpers.
In dependency theory, theorist used the concept of dependency to analyze the global economic perspective. By doing this, they brought up the old meaning of dependency. This usage remains strong in Latin America as well as in the U.S. Fraser and Gordon believed that the theorist seek to shift the focus back to the social relations of subordination. Even though, they do not have much impact on mainstream talk about welfare. Now that economic dependency is now another meaning for poverty, no one really talks about dependency as a social relation of