Description: Thinking About Social Policy Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The German Tradition Author(s): Franz-Xaver Kaufmann Format: Hardback Language: English Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ISBN-13: 9783642195006, 978-3642195006 Synopsis The book traces the political history of the concept of social policy. "Social policy" originated in Germany in the mid 19th century as a scholarly term that made a career in politics. The term became more prominent only after World War II. Kaufmann, the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany, argues that "social policy" responds to the modern disjunction between "state" and "society" diagnosed by the German philosopher Hegel. Hegel's disciple Lorenz von Stein saw social policy as a means to pacify the capitalist class conflict. After World War II, social policy expanded in an unprecedented way, changing its character in the process. Social policy turned from class politics into a policy for the whole population, with new concepts - like "social security", "redistribution" and "quality of life" - and new overarching formulas, "social market economy" and "social state" (the German version of "welfare state"). Both formulas have remained indeterminate and contested, indicating the inherent openness of the idea of the "social".
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Book Title: Thinking About Social Policy
Number of Pages: 166 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Thinking about Social Policy: the German Tradition
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Economics
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 426 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Gerhard A. Ritter, Michael Stolleis, Manfried G. Schmidt, Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, Hans F. Zacher
Subject Area: Social Services
Series: German Social Policy
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
