scholarly journals The University and the State in a Global Age: Renegotiating the Traditional Social Contract?

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kwiek
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
The Welfare State

This article is based on the Keynote Address to the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Dublin, Ireland, 7–10 September 2005. It argues that we are facing the simultaneous renegotiation of the major post-war social contract (concerning the welfare state) in Europe and the renegotiation of a smaller-scale modern social pact: the pact between the university and the nation-state. It suggests that the current, and especially future, transformations of the university are not fully clear outside of the context of transformations to the state (and to the public sector) under global pressures. These pressures, both directly and indirectly, will not leave the university as an institution unaffected. Thus it is more useful today than ever before to discuss the future of the university in the context of the current transformations of the state. The study is divided into four sections: a brief introduction; a section on the university and the welfare state in Europe; a section on the university and the nation-state in Europe; and tentative conclusions.

Welfare and the State

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Melanie Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
The State ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Welfare State

Once upon a time, there was a consensus in this country that the welfare state was the jewel in the crown of the post-war settlement. It was a national badge of moral worth. It was held to embody certain virtues that people told themselves were the hallmark of a civilised society: altruism, equity, dignity, fellowship. It defined Britain as a co-operative exercise which bound us together into a cohesive society. Or so we told ourselves.

The Over-Pressure Controversy and Everyday Expertise

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-217
Author(s):  
Christopher Bischof
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
School Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
Commit Suicide ◽  
The Welfare State

Chapter eight, ‘The Over-Pressure Controversy and Everyday Expertise’, examines the public debate in the wake of a sensational 1884 report claiming that the annual examination of children in elementary schools was driving them to do school work in their sleep, stunting their development, and leading dozens of them to commit suicide each year. In testimonies to government inquiries and articles in the press, teachers demonstrated how intimately they knew about children’s home situations and their health—and how much the doctors and educational policymakers who were trying to co-opt the debate over what to do about ‘over-pressure’ depended on that knowledge. Their testimony also revealed how desperately poor and working-class children needed more protection and help from the state. This was an important moment in the democratization of expertise and the making of the welfare state.

Gender, Metaphor and the State

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Sawer
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Social Liberalism ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Welfare State

The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance – through ‘over-protection’ by the state in the public sphere and usurpation of male roles in the private sphere. The identification of the welfare state as female (the ‘nanny state’) helps fuel resentment on the part of those already confused by rapidly changing gender roles. This paper tracks the sex change which took place in the image of the liberal state as it evolved out of the night watchman state – the link between the women's suffrage movement and social regulation, maternal principles of distribution and demands for the public organization of caring. It examines the neo-liberal rejection of the breast and neo-liberal claims that the maternal state is incompatible with ‘self-reliance’ and a barrier to competitiveness in the world market.

Coming to Terms with the State: Maternalist Politics and the Development of the Welfare State in Weimar Germany

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Eifert
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Persuasion ◽  
The Welfare State

For some time now, maternalism has been recognized as “one of women's chief avenues into the public sphere.” It has dominated the politics of women's movements in different countries, regardless of political persuasion, since at least the 1850s. The term maternalism has been used to describe “ideologies and discourses that exalted women's capacity to mother and applied to society as a whole the values they attached to that role: care, nurturance, and morality.”

scholarly journals Migración y Ciudadanía, un estudio sobre la apertura de los inmigrantes hacia los valores de la sociedad española según su estatus administrativo

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
The University ◽  
Cultural Homogenization ◽  
The Welfare State

Resumen: En las últimas décadas la ciudadanía se ha convertido en uno de los grandes temas de la filosofía de derecho, la sociología, las ciencias políticas y generalmente del interés público. En una nueva era de migraciones mundializadas y en tiempos de crisis econó- mico mundial, acentuado en países como España, se levantan las voces que piden un cierre de las fronteras para proteger las sociedades occidentales. Las migraciones no solamente parecen representar una amenaza para el estado de bienestar y la cohesión social, sino también para la identidad nacional, la cultura y forma de vida de las sociedades occidentales. En este contexto el autor de este artículo se plantea varias preguntas: ¿Existe una tendencia en la política europea hacia una nueva asimilación cultural? ¿Cuál es el poder homogeneizador que tiene el Estado-nación en un sentido cultural? ¿Cuál es el papel que tiene la ciudadanía en estos procesos? A base de un análisis de un estudio sobre los procesos de aculturación de dos colectivos de inmigrantes, realizado por un grupo de investigación de la Universidad de Almería, el autor intenta encontrar respuestas a estas preguntas. Abstract: Over the last decades citizenship has become one of the most important topics of philosophy of law, sociology, political science and the public interest in general. In times of globalized migrations and world-wide economic crises, most notably in countries like Spain, more and more people demand a closing of the borders to protect western societies. Migration not only seems to represent a threat for the welfare state and social cohesion, but also for the national identity, the culture and way of life of the western societies. In this context the author considers a number of questions. Does there exist a tendency towards a new cultural assimilation in Europe? What kind of power does the nation-state have in the context of cultural homogenization? What´s the role played by citizenship during this process? On the basis of an investigation about the acculturation process of two immigrant groups, realized by a research group of the University of Almeria, the author tries to answer these questions.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
Post War ◽  
Core Mission ◽  
The Welfare State

This concluding chapter summarises the book's key themes and offers a number of suggestions about how social work can reassert its core mission and commitment to social justice. It begins with the argument that neoliberalism has to be understood as a political and economic project, noting how neoliberals' anti-statism is most apparent in attitudes to the welfare state — or, more precisely, payments made to those who are out of work. It then considers the cumulative effect of the government's austerity policies, the ideological attack on the whole basis of the social contract and the post-war welfare settlement, and the increase in the so-called ‘marketisation’ of the state. It also explains how neoliberal policies followed by a period of austerity has exacerbated inequality and ends by analysing the poverty paradox of social work.

scholarly journals Aktualisasi Welfare State Terhadap Kehidupan Bernegara Dalam Dimensi Keislaman dan Keindonesiaan

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Rohim Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
The State ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract: Every state must have the goal the welfare of its citizens, as the slogan of the Welfare State. In the implementation of the Welfare State is based on the principle of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and the public responsibility against those who are not able to supply its own needs. This means that the state is directly involved in the affairs of its citizens, so no experience discrimination in social life. Including the state of Indonesia, making the welfare state as a slogan in order to achieve social justice for all Indonesian people.Keywords: Welfare State, state, welfareAbstrak: Setiap negara wajib memiliki tujuan menyejahterakan warganya sebagaimana slogan Welfare State. Dalam pelaksanaannya Welfare State didasarkan pada prinsip persamaan kesempatan (equality of opportunity), pemerataan pendapatan (equitable distribution of wealth), dan tanggung jawab publik (public responsibility) terhadap mereka yang tidak mampu untuk menyediakan sendiri kebutuhan. Artinya negara terlibat langsung dalam urusan warga negaranya, sehingga tidak ada yang mengalami diskriminasi dalam kehidupan sosialnya. Termasuk negara Indonesia, menjadikan welfare state sebagai slogan guna mencapai tujuan keadilan sosial bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia.Kata Kunci: Welfare State, bernegara, kesejahteraan

In Need

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordanna Bailkin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter asks how refugee camps transformed people as well as spaces, altering the identities of the individuals and communities who lived in and near them. It considers how camps forged and fractured economic, religious, and ethnic identities, constructing different kinds of unity and disunity. Camps had unpredictable effects on how refugees and Britons thought of themselves, and how they saw their relationship to upward and downward mobility. As the impoverished Briton emerged more clearly in the imagination of the welfare state, the refugee was his constant companion and critic. The state struggled to determine whether refugees required the same care as the poor, or if they warranted their own structures of aid.

Die Macht der Institution

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This volume examines Arnold Gehlen’s theory of the state from his philosophy of the state in the 1920s via his political and cultural anthropology to his impressive critique of the post-war welfare state. The systematic analyses the book contains by leading scholars in the social sciences and the humanities examine the interplay between the theory and history of the state with reference to the broader context of the history of ideas. Students and researchers as well as other readers interested in this subject will find this book offers an informative overview of how one of the most wide-ranging and profound thinkers of the twentieth century understands the state. With contributions by Oliver Agard, Heike Delitz, Joachim Fischer, Andreas Höntsch, Tim Huyeng, Rastko Jovanov, Frank Kannetzky, Christine Magerski, Zeljko Radinkovic, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg and Christian Steuerwald.

New Mayors: France and the United States

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Richard Balme ◽  
Jeanne Becquart-Leclercq ◽  
Terry N. Clark ◽  
Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot ◽  
Jean-Yves Nevers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Significant Support ◽  
The Welfare State

In 1983 we organized a conference on “Questioning the Welfare State and the Rise of the City” at the University of Paris, Nanterre. About a hundred persons attended, including many French social scientists and political activists. Significant support came from the new French Socialist government. Yet with Socialism in power since 1981, it was clear that the old Socialist ideas were being questioned inside and outside the Party and government—especially in the important decentralization reforms. There was eager interest in better ways to deliver welfare state services at the local level.

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