Abram de Swaan

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Abram de Swaan (born January 8, 1942 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch sociologist . De Swaan is considered a student of Norbert Elias .

Abram de Swaan

De Swaan gained attention for his work on the sociogenesis of welfare states . Based on Elias' study on the process of civilization , de Swaan does not presuppose the existence of state (collective) intervention possibilities, but rather describes the collectivization of social risks as a process lasting centuries. The thesis emerged from his study that the welfare state enables civilization towards social awareness .

Fonts (selection)

  • America in termijnen (1968)
  • Halverwege de Heilstaat (essays; 1983)
  • Zorg en de State (1989); German: The caring state. Welfare, Health, and Education in Modern Europe and the United States. Frankfurt / New York 1993
  • Moord en de state (2003)
  • The Killing Compartments (2015)
  • Tegen de vrouwen. De wereldwijde strijd van rechtsisten en jihadisten tegen de emancipatie. (2019)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kronauer, Martin (2010): 'Exclusion. The threat to the social in highly developed capitalism ', pp. 35–40.
  2. ↑ Vogel, Berthold (2007): 'Die Staatsbedürftigkeit der Gesellschaft', pp. 36–39.
personal data
SURNAME Swaan, Abram de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam