Human Resources and Social Policy

Hans Peter Widmaier
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Hans Peter Widmaier: University of Regensburg

Chapter 14 in Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective, 1983, pp 295-309 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A quick first appraisal of the human-capital approach serves to show its methodological individualism. It is not individual investment decisions that determine the propensity to acquire qualifications, but the following socio-political factors: (i) a propensity to acquire a class-specific qualification or education depending on social origin (which means a rigid reproduction of either the class structure or a given social structure); (ii) the class- or social-structure-specific teaching in terms of method and content (within the context of a bourgeois-educational system); (iii) a politically determined supply of educational facilities. Thus the alternative approach presented here starts from the existence of basic economic, social, and educational needs which are socially determined and fulfilled under the restrictive social conditions of the welfare state. Social and educational goods are regarded as political goods, that is both the level and structure of these goods are determined by non-market factors through the political system (collective action, democratic action, bureaucratic action).

Keywords: Social Policy; Collective Action; Welfare State; Educational Planning; State Bureaucracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17203-0_14

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