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Since the COVID-scandals in German abattoirs, employment and working conditions of migrant workers have been the subject of intense debate. Applying a Polanyian framework of social embeddedness, the question is posed whether the working conditions of migrant seasonal, posted, or subcontracting workers have improved after 2020 and whether a process...
Labor market success is a crucial aspect of social inclusion in today’s societies. Migrants and women have long been excluded from access to the labor market, from advancing in their careers, or they have been pushed into certain segments of the labor market, such as precarious and/or part-time work. The special issue analyzes these mechanisms of d...
Labor market success is a crucial aspect of social inclusion in today’s societies. Migrants and women have long been excluded from access to the labor market, from advancing in their careers, or they have been pushed into certain segments of the labor market, such as precarious and/or part-time work. The special issue analyzes these mechanisms of d...
Im Zuge des sozialstaatlichen Umbaus, der seit Ende der 1980er-Jahre zunehmend in Form nicht nur privatisierender, sondern auch aktivierender Reformen und Leitideen vonstattenging, sahen sich immer mehr Beziehende von staatlichen Transferleistungen trotz ihres sozialrechtlichen Anspruchs vor der Herausforderung, ihre Grundversorgung durch zusätzlic...
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Ziel der Untersuchung ist eine historisch-institutionalistische Analyse graduellen Institutionenwandels im SGB II zwischen 2003 und 2022. Hierbei werden drei in Wechselwirkung stehende Elemente der bisherigen Grundsicherung untersucht: die Leitidee des „Fördern und Fordern“ als verrechtlichter Ausdruck des neuen wohlfahrtsstaatliche...
Wie verändert die europäische Integration die daran beteiligten Gesellschaften? Welche sozialen Probleme entstehen dabei? Kommt es gar zur Herausbildung einer europäischen Gesellschaft? Diese und andere Fragen behandelt die Europasoziologie, die sich seit den 1990er Jahren entwickelte, als deutlich wurde, dass die europäische Integration nicht nur...
The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a number of partly improvised, partly only temporary, but in every respect diverse and often unprecedented social policy measures in Europe. The edited volume provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of social policy responses during the COVID-19 crisis in order to ask in which direction the Europ...
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In diesem Beitrag wird der krisenspezifische Einfluss der Covid-19-Pandemie auf wohlfahrtsstaatliche Solidarität während der ersten Infektionswelle und des ersten Lockdowns von März bis Mai 2020 untersucht. Wir verknüpfen dabei ein wohlfahrtsstaatssoziologisches Verständnis von Solidarität mit katastrophensoziologischen Überlegungen...
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Der Artikel untersucht den Wohlfahrtsstaat als politische Quelle von Solidarität und fragt nach den Solidarisierungspotentialen von Sozialpolitik. Können derart abstrakte, staatlich organisierte und über Beitrags- und Steuerzahlungen formalisierte Unterstützungsbeziehungen in einer Gesellschaft überhaupt Solidarität hervorbringen un...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
How does European integration change involved societies? Which social problems arise in the process? Does it even lead to the formation of a European society? These and other questions are addressed by the sociology of European integration which has been developing since the 1990s, when it became clear that European integration has not only politic...
The rapidly increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe since 2014 have given the topic of refugee migration heightened public and scholarly attention. Starting from the observation that the legal status and rights of refugees from Ukraine differ markedly from those from Syria and other Middle Eastern and North African countries, th...
Der Artikel untersucht den Wohlfahrtsstaat als politische Quelle von Solidarität und fragt nach den Solidarisierungspotentialen von Sozialpolitik. Können derart abstrakte, staatlich
organisierte und über Beitrags- und Steuerzahlungen formalisierte Unterstützungsbeziehungen in einer Gesellschaft überhaupt Solidarität hervorbringen und wenn ja, welch...
Der Beitrag analysiert, inwiefern sich innerhalb wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Transformationen Inhalt und Semantik von Solidarität als sozialstaatlicher Leitidee gewandelt haben. Nach einer theoretischen Begriffsbestimmung von Solidarität in sozialstaatlichen Arrangements wie in sozialpolitischen Diskursen wird die Frage beispielhaft in zwei zentralen Fel...
Der Artikel untersucht den Wandel der Praktiken Solidarpraktiken im Rahmen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung und ihren Vorläuferorganisationen. Dieser Wandel wird als Übergang von Solidarität unter Freunden zu Solidarität unter Fremden beschrieben. Während auf der Instrumentenebene die solidarischen Praktiken der Umverteilung im Grunde gleichgeb...
Insights from research on previous crises and studies that compare different crises suggest that each crisis creates its own version of solidarity or de-solidarization (Agustín & Jørgen-sen, 2016; della Porta, 2018; Lahusen & Grasso, 2018). Viewed together, the papers of this special issue provide examples of the manifold facets of solidarity and o...
The common legal and economic framework of the European Union (EU) has turned the vast socio-economic differences within Europe into virulent problems of social inequality – issues that it attempts to tackle within its limited resources. The article takes the EU’s self-expressed social commitment as a starting point and analyses its approaches to s...
Governmentality studies and social theories agree that in contemporary societies the idea of autonomy is no longer simply an ideal or an individual aspiration but a social obligation. In an attempt to clarify the meaning of autonomy in this day and age, this paper asks how individuals perceive and negotiate the various dimensions of autonomy and ho...
Die Europäische Säule sozialer Rechte (ESSR) stellt den jüngsten Vorstoß der Europäischen Kommission dar, die soziale Dimension Europas zu stärken. Der Beitrag nimmt die Semantik der ESSR zum Ausgangspunkt und untersucht mithilfe von T. H. Marshalls Konzept der sozialen Rechte, ob die sozialpolitischen Regulierungen auf EU-Ebene tatsächlich die Anf...
Der Beitrag behandelt die Entstehung und den Wandel von Solidarität am Beispiel britischer und deutscher Hilfskassen während der Herausbildung des staatlichen Sozialversicherungswesens. Er fragt, wie sich im 19. Jahrhundert freiwillige Unterstützungsformen der Arbeiterschaft im Spannungsfeld von kollektiver Identität und sozialer Not entwickelt hab...
Recent debates often suggest that welfare states are nation states and that comprehensive social policies at the EU level are therefore inconceivable, given the lack of a European collective identity. Reconsidering former and current periods of social policy rescaling, this paper examines the preconditions for the expansion of the territorial frame...
Der Sammelband nimmt die multiplen Inanspruchnahmen eines selbstverantwortlichen, sich und seine Praxis reflektierenden und optimierenden Subjekts sowie die Folgen seiner potenziellen Überforderung in den Blick. Diese wachsende Inanspruchnahme resultiert dabei, so die These, aus dem Grundversprechen der Moderne, prinzipiell allen Menschen ein selbs...
Verfolgt man die Fragestellung der institutionellen Einbettung von Autonomieansprüchen unter einem rekonstruktiv-genetischen und gegenwartsanalytischen Blickwinkel, fällt bei allen Differenzen zwischen Paradigmen und unterschiedlichen Befunden im Detail eine allgemeine Konvergenz der hierfür einschlägigen ‚Standardtheorien‘ ins Auge: Unter dem Blic...
Als institutioneller Rahmen prägt der Sozialstaat Lebenssituationen
und -entwürfe, indem er Anreize setzt, Möglichkeiten eröffnet und individuelle Entscheidungen und Erwartungen formt. Als gigantische Maschinerie der Umverteilung von Renditen der ökonomischen Produktion prägt er gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse und Strukturen sozialer Ungleichhe...
Wie Stefanie Börner, Diana Lindner, Jörg Oberthür und André Stiegler in ihrem Beitrag argumentieren, führen die Reformen in der öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltung in Deutuschland nicht nur zu einem neuen Typ des , sondern lassen auch einen neuen Typ von Vermittlungskräften zu Tage treten: den bzw. die FallmanagerIn. Dabei sind die Handlungsspielräume v...
Increasingly, research on attitudes towards the European project focuses on transnational practices. This article furthers the transnational approach by offering the first systematic analysis of how domestic transnationalism – i.e. transnational practices conducted in the home country – influences the formation of pro-European sentiments. We argue...
Welfare schemes constitute identities and solidarities through regulating social relations and creating an individual scope of action as well as interests and expectations. A question that directly follows is how these institutionally framed collective identities, in turn, shape social policies when it comes to a widening of the constructed boundar...
European integration is becoming more and more a process influencing not only politics and economics, but also the European citizenry. In the wake of this development, the scientific interest in European integration has also changed decisively: In addition to the analysis of the political and economic integration processes, the investigation of the...
This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities. All rights reserved.
Although until now the nation state has been regarded as the largest known social community that allows for redistribution among its members (Offe 2003a: 270), the history of the welfare state (precisely because it is not only the history of the welfare state) as well as recent developments hint at the fact that, besides the nation state, other ter...
Solidarity is based on the creation of realms of equality that alter former exclusively rational and calculus-based considerations of costs and benefits in favour of more community and norm-oriented behavioural patterns (Bartolini 2005). In theoretical terms, individual calculations transcend group-related parameters that trigger cooperation, trust...
Chapter 4 gave an insight into how the state behaved towards self-governed benefit societies; this chapter now turns to the question of how friendly societies and Hilfskassen reacted to state action, namely the projected nationalisation of health insurance. It argues that state intervention in the field of social policy brought about collective act...
During the last few centuries it has been a fixed component of European politics to expand, abolish, merge, shift and fortify boundaries (Flora et al. 1999; Bartolini 2005). This history has inspired scholars to adopt the tools and concepts developed in the course of these studies and apply them to the current developments in the European Union and...
What has the European Union (EU) got to do with all this?
This chapter finally tries to answer the question of conditions under which more abstract forms of solidarity are likely to become accepted. At what point is it likely that previous categories of belonging will be given up in support of new institutionalised categories? Social psychologists have been studying processes of group categorisation and t...
The phenomenon of a Europe-wide (and beyond) mutual-benefit movement has been widely neglected among historians and social scientists. Scholars have tended to focus on the history of labour movements as a history of trade unions and socialist parties, or on the history of social security systems with a focus on state action, thereby marginalising i...
The European Union and the transnational processes linked to it have triggered an unprecedented interest in historical subjects and diachronic comparisons that are meant to tackle questions concerning European integration, de-nationalisation and the like. The insights gained, however, are geared towards recent events and current developments. In th...
Allein im vergangenen Jahr hat die Große Koalition fünf verschiedene Lohnzuschussmodelle auf den Weg gebracht: Im Mai 2007
ist die Initiative50plus in Kraft getreten, im Oktober schlössen sich ein Qualifizierungskombi für Jugendliche sowie eine
Beschäftigungskombi für schwer Vermittelbare an und seit Anfang 2008 existiert der Kommunal-Kombi. Zuletz...
