Thinking About Social Policy [electronic resource] : The German Tradition /
Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver.author.
The book is part of the 5-volume series "German Social Policy", a unique multidisciplinary approach to the history of German social policy written by the doyens of their respective disciplines. The volumes expound the contribution of the German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. After the Second World War, Germany's Social Market Economy became a model of social integration. The volumes cover the history of ideas (volume 1), the legal and political history before and after 1945 (volumes 2 and 3), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the impact of German reunification (1990) (volume 4). Volume 5 embeds the German case in a major comparative study of European welfare states, complemented by a study of the USA and the Soviet Union. The volumes also yield insights into general theoretical issues of social policy beyond the empirical case of Germany. Each volume has an introduction by the editor who summarizes the contribution made by the volumes and looks into the future of German social policy. 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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Thinking About Social Policy; The German Tradition; Preface to the Book Series ``German Social Policy ́ ́; Contents; Nation State and Social Policy: An Ideational and Political History; 1 The Distinction ``State Versus Society ́ ́; 2 ``The Social ́ ́; 3 Variations of Modern Society: Distinguishing Welfare States and Non-Welfare States; 4 Variations of the Welfare State: The Idiosyncrasy of National ``State Traditions ́ ́; 5 Post-War German Social Policy in Retrospect: The Genesis of a Welfare State; 6 What Future for the Social?; References; Thinking About Social Policy: The German Tradition
1 Introduction2 Social Policy as Mediation Between ``State ́ ́ and ``Civil Society ́ ́; 2.1 Social - Socialism - Science of Society; 2.1.1 The ``Social ́ ́ as an Expression of Secularization; 2.1.2 The Differentiation Between the Political and the Social: G. W. F. Hegel; 2.2 Social Question - Social Reform - Social Policy; 2.2.1 Science of Society and Social Reform: Lorenz von Stein; 2.2.2 The Emergence of the Term Sozialpolitik; 2.2.3 Terminological Fixation; 3 The Workers ́ Question and Social Policy (1863-1918); 3.1 Latency of the Term Sozialpolitik; 3.1.1 The Liberal Phase
3.1.2 The Political Use of Language in the Phase Preceding Bismarckian Social Legislation3.2 The Influence of the Verein für Socialpolitik; 3.2.1 Naming the Organization; 3.2.2 Confusions and Clarifications: The Historical Importance of the Verein für Socialpolitik; 3.3 First Conceptual Debates; 3.3.1 Preliminary Remarks on the Conceptual Question; 3.3.2 Attempted Definitions Within the Horizon of Bismarckian Social Reform; 3.3.3 Werner Sombart: Social Policy as Policy for Economic Order; 3.3.4 Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Social Policy as Distribution-oriented Structural Policy
3.4 The Influence of the First World War4 The Crisis of Social Policy (1920-1945); 4.1 The Crisis Discussion and its Context; 4.2 Social-Democratic Perspectives: Between Socialization and the Social Rechtsstaat (rule of law); 4.2.1 Hugo Sinzheimer: Social Self-Determination in the Law; 4.2.2 Fritz Naphtali: Economic Democracy; 4.2.3 Hermann Heller: The Social Constitutional State; 4.3 ``Christian Social Reform ́ ́ and the Failure of Corporatist Solutions to the Conflicts; 4.4 Reactions from Scientific Social Policy; 4.4.1 Conceptual Discussions
4.4.2 Eduard Heimann ́s Historical Theory of Social Policy4.5 Social Policy Under National Socialism; 5 Social Policy Since the Second World War; 5.1 Normative Orientations; 5.1.1 Social State and Social Market Economy as Conceptual Frameworks; 5.1.2 Christian Social Doctrines; 5.2 Social Policy as Social Science Between Tradition and new Orientations (1946-1966); 5.2.1 Conceptual Diversification; 5.2.2 Diversification of Perspectives; 5.2.3 New Conceptual Orientations; 5.2.4 New Theoretical Perspectives
5.3 Social Policy Between ``Quality of Life ́ ́ and ``Crisis of the Social State ́ ́ (1967-1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book is part of the 5-volume series "German Social Policy", a unique multidisciplinary approach to the history of German social policy written by the doyens of their respective disciplines. The volumes expound the contribution of the German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. After the Second World War, Germany's Social Market Economy became a model of social integration. The volumes cover the history of ideas (volume 1), the legal and political history before and after 1945 (volumes 2 and 3), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the impact of German reunification (1990) (volume 4). Volume 5 embeds the German case in a major comparative study of European welfare states, complemented by a study of the USA and the Soviet Union. The volumes also yield insights into general theoretical issues of social policy beyond the empirical case of Germany. Each volume has an introduction by the editor who summarizes the contribution made by the volumes and looks into the future of German social policy. 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".
Social policy.
Political science.
History.
Social Policy.
Political Science.
History, general.