Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft und soziale Sicherung: Überlegungen zu Genese und Wandel des modernen Wohlfahrtsstaats

Stefan Zapfel and Markus Promberger
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Markus Promberger: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201121, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Before industrialization, traditional communities - families, local neighborhoods, and religious groups - were meant to safeguard their members from risks like poverty. As the transition into industrialization produced new risks or generalized previously limited risks, this fallback system turned out to be insufficient. Hence, post-traditional communities, predominantly related to the labour movement, tried to offset the lack of social security. But they were only successful to some extent. Therefore, step by step the state created national social policy as a societal sort of prevention and combat of misery. Today, the different versions of social protection form a multi-level system characterizing the modern welfare state. Its status quo and its change may be described adequately, using some main concepts of Classical Sociology, e.g. 'community', 'society', or 'solidarity'." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Begriff; Begriff; Familie; Gemeinschaft; Gesellschaft; historische Entwicklung; institutionelle Faktoren; soziale Integration; Soziale Sicherheit; Sozialpolitik; Soziologie; Wohlfahrtsstaat (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2011
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