Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Constitution of the Social

Zacher, Hans Friedrich

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“…Social insurance may therefore be seen to reward effort and maintain an appropriate level of inequality. However, where inequality and its supporting policies directly limit social mobility, undermine meritocracy and de-link talent from effort, inequalities may be regarded as inappropriate (Zacher, 2013). Despite a growing mandate for redistribution of opportunities and outcomes, moral arguments regarding inequality remain more equivocal than those framing poverty, and current expressions may only concede the need for active state responses in cases of extreme inequality (Bangura, 2011).…”

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Can social protection address both poverty and inequality in principle and practice?

Plagerson

Ulriksen

2016

Global Social Policy

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The recent expansion of social protection in the Global South has focused on practice (the how) and not on principles (the why). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) endorse social protection as a means of addressing both poverty and inequality. In this article, which contributes to the Special Issue on ‘ The principles and practice of social protection’, we focus on the principles that (often implicitly) underlie four types of social protection responses to poverty and inequality. The analysis of moral, economic, political and social arguments shows a convergence on the need to alleviate poverty, but the principled agreement to tackle inequality is weaker as it requires a broader mandate and more extensive state intervention. Regardless of strong moral/social arguments, dominant economic/political arguments are less inclined to accept the type of social protection required to address inequalities.

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Can social protection address both poverty and inequality in principle and practice?

Plagerson

Ulriksen

2016

Global Social Policy

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“…For the UK, see Marshall (1950, 1981) and Pinker (1979; for the United States, see Janowitz (1976); for the Netherlands, see de Swaan (1988) andvan Kersbergen (1995); for Germany, see Nullmeier (2000), Zacher (2013), and Achinger (1979); and for social anthropology, see von Benda-Beckmann and von Benda-Beckmann (1994). 2.…”

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The "Social": The Global Career of an Idea

Leisering¹

2013

International Journal of Social Quality

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This special issue assembles contributions from the global North and South to inquire into the future of the "social" from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science and law. What does "social" mean, and do social policy and the welfare state have a future in a global age? The issue is published on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, who is considered the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany (see his recent books, translated into English, Kaufmann 2012, 2013a, 2013b).Kaufmann's ambitious sociological approach, which emphasizes national state traditions and notions of society and culture, contrasts with the dominating approaches to social policy, which are either normative (prominently Titmuss 1987; for a critique see Pinker 1979), descriptive (much of the textbook literature), political economy (Lenhardt and Offe 1977; Esping-Andersen 1990, the most influential recent writer on the welfare state) or policy studies. Although there is a vast literature on social policy and the welfare state, surprisingly few scholars have investigated the societal and cultural dimensions of social policy and the welfare state in depth. 1

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“…Thomas Humphrey Marshall (1950) analyses the rise of the idea and institutions of equality in the wake of state-building, focusing on social rights and their societal requisites, which includes a "welfare consciousness" among citizens and elites (Marshall 1981b: 89) and the formation of social professions. Although Marshall is the most frequently quoted theorist of the welfare state, it is 6 For the UK, see Marshall (1950Marshall ( , 1981a and Pinker (1979); for the United States, see Janowitz (1976) and Heclo (1995); for the Netherlands, de Swaan (1988) and van Kersbergen (1995); for Germany, Kaufmann (1991Kaufmann ( , 1997Kaufmann ( , 2013aKaufmann ( , 2012, Nullmeier (2000), Zacher (2013), and Achinger (1979Achinger ( , first published 1958; for India, see Singh (2015a, b); and for social anthropology and Southeast Asia, see von Benda-Beckmann and von Benda-Beckmann (1994). Lessenich (2003) and Béland and Petersen (2014) explore basic concepts of the welfare state and of social policy, respectively.…”

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Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach

Leisering

2020

One Hundred Years of Social Protection

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This chapter is the introduction to the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. The Introduction outlines an ideational and historical approach to social protection in the Global South to contribute to a theory of “social policy in development contexts”, which is a desideratum. The Introduction also provides basic data on the four countries (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) and summaries of all the chapters in the book. Three research gaps are identified: scarcity of historical research; scant attention to ideas and instead a dominant focus on interests; and insufficient use of historical sources. This volume contributes to filling these gaps through a historical, idea-centred, and source-based approach. A multi-layered model of social ideas—the “onion skin model”—is developed that has the “social question” as its pivot.

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Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Constitution of the Social

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Can social protection address both poverty and inequality in principle and practice?

Can social protection address both poverty and inequality in principle and practice?

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Can social protection address both poverty and inequality in principle and practice?

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