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Freedom versus security: debates on social risks in Western Germany in the 1950s
Freiheit versus Sicherheit: die Debatte um soziale Risiken in Westdeutschland in den 1950ern
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Abstract The article outlines the debate on the expansion of the welfare state in Western Germany during the 1950s. This debate does not only provide important insights into the self-perception of Western German society. It can also be read as a risk debate, because the contemporaries were aware of the ambiv... mehr
The article outlines the debate on the expansion of the welfare state in Western Germany during the 1950s. This debate does not only provide important insights into the self-perception of Western German society. It can also be read as a risk debate, because the contemporaries were aware of the ambivalent effects of the preventive measures against poverty: While especially social democrats emphasised the stabilising effect of the fight against poverty on democracy, politicians from economic-liberal circles stressed the risk that such measures could give the state excessive power over its citizens. Despite the consensual conviction of all relevant political actors that an expansion of the welfare state was historically consequent and expected by the population, the weighing of individual freedom on the one hand and social security on the other hand coined the debate on, as well as the organisation of, the Western German welfare state. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wohlfahrtsstaat; soziale Sicherung; Sozialstaat; Risikogesellschaft; Armut; Armutsbekämpfung; Sozialpolitik; soziale Rechte; Leistungsanspruch; Selbstverantwortung; Freiheit; Nachkriegszeit; 20. Jahrhundert; alte Bundesländer; Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Klassifikation
soziale Sicherung
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 176-200
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 1
Heftthema
Risk as an analytical category: selected studies in the social history of the twentieth century
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.176-200
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)