Brazilianization

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The Brazilianization of the West is a short formula introduced into the sociological debate by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck at the end of the 1990s for the social change he suspected in Europe towards increasing social inequality . He says: Brazilianization means the intrusion of the precarious , discontinuous, flaky, informal into the western bastions of a full-employment society. This means that the socio-structural patchwork is spreading in the center of the West, that is to say: the diversity, confusion and insecurity of work, biography and life forms in the South.

The term was also taken up by Franz Josef Radermacher when he called for a change in the political system in the direction of a global eco-social market economy .

As a result of globalization under the neoliberal paradigm of a completely free market, Beck foresees tendencies towards a change in the stratification of post-industrial western societies in the direction of an alignment of working culture with the standards of developing countries and a disintegration of civil society . His sketch thus predicts a decline in development for the European states, which - anticipated since the 1920s - has already prevailed in the decline of a number of Latin American states (relative to Europe), characterized by a disintegration of the middle classes, an opening of the income gap and poverty scenarios that were previously only known from third world countries . Brazil , but also Chile, Argentina, Uruguay or Costa Rica could be named here.

See also

literature

  • Ulrich Beck: Brave new world of work - Vision: Weltbürgergesellschaft , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36036-5

credentials

  1. ↑ Model Citizen Work , in: Ders., Brave New Working World - Vision Weltbürgergesellschaft , Frankfurt am Main, 1999, p. 7
  2. ↑ Asymmetries of Global Wealth - The Brazilianization of the World , Interview with Franz Josef Radermacher (with Fritz R. Glunk), in: Die Gazette , No. 10, summer 2006; furthermore: “ We must promote a better globalization structure! “ ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), archive.org, September 27, 2007; Interview Kerstin Holzheu with Franz Josef Radermacher; Björn Josten, Selfish elites want things to go wrong (PDF; 81 kB), in: Westfälische Rundschau , February 27, 2007 (all accessed June 7, 2007)