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Bread and Roses: Social re-presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country
Itziar Guerendiain-Gabás1,2, Maitane Arnoso-Martínez1,2, Lorena Gil de Montes1
1Department of Social Psychology, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain.
The British Journal of Social Psychology
|June 10, 2025
Summary
Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is debated through social representations of equality and freedom, influenced by capitalist realism and political despair. Public reasoning on UBI is shaped by differing views on distributive justice and group stereotypes.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Political Science
Background:
- The social debate on Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is intensifying.
- Academic literature on social attitudes towards UBI is extensive, yet qualitative studies on ideological conflicts are scarce.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the shared meanings and arguments in the social re-presentation of UBI.
- To explore the ideological objectives underlying public discourse on UBI.
Main Methods:
- Drawing on social representations theory and social order conceptions.
- Conducted a reflexive thematic analysis of 26 individual interviews in the Basque Country.
Main Results:
- Identified four key themes: origins of social inequality, the right to a good life, UBI accessibility, and feasibility.
- UBI re-presentation is rooted in contested values of equality and freedom, objectified into distributive justice and group stereotypes.
- Meaning-making is influenced by capitalist realism and political despair.
Conclusions:
- Collective reasoning about UBI is shaped by social-psychological processes and ideological underpinnings.
- Understanding these processes is crucial for both theoretical and applied perspectives on UBI debates.
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