New social question

The term New Social Question was introduced into the political discussion by Heiner Geißler in 1975. The term was used to refer to the phenomenon of unemployment at a consistently high level, which emerged again in the 1970s, as well as the situation of numerous households, such as pensioners, who are no longer in employment from which they could directly draw social security , and which are also not represented by any other interest group. Kurt Biedenkopf responded to the discussion in his 1974 book Progress in Freedom by outlining new social questions.

Critics saw in the concept a popularization of the social state criticism from the left and neo-Marxist side. So had Claus Offe argues that the welfare state is equal to open by no means all organized interests.

In the current public debate, the term is used to address various phenomena, such as intergenerational equity in pension policy, the consequences of globalization or the social effects of unemployment .

See also

• Social question

literature

• Warnfried Dettling et al. a .: The new social question and the future of democracy . Olzog Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7892-7122-5 .
• Heiner Geißler: The New Social Question. Analyzes and documents . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / B. 1980, ISBN 3-451-07566-0 .
• Mannheim Declaration on the New Social Question . Federal party conference of the CDU in Mannheim 1975
• Greven, Michael Th .: Social Problems and Political Answers - Social Policy Concepts and Conflicts of the Seventies , pp. 91–196. - in: ders./ R.Prätorius / T.Schiller: Welfare state and social policy. Crisis and Perspectives . Darmstadt and Neuwied (Luchterhand) 1980.
• Manfred Groser, Wolfgang Veiders: The New Social Question. Verlag Ernst Knoth, Melle 1979, ISBN 3-88368-014-1
• Hans Peter Widmaier (Ed.): On the new social question. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Berlin 1978 ISBN 3-428-04151-8
• Siegmar Mosdorf: The socio-political challenge. Welfare state criticism, new social question and the future of German social policy. Bund Verlag, Cologne 1980 ISBN 3766304216
• Heribert J. Becher (Ed.): The new social question. On the sociological content of a sociopolitical concept. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982 ISBN 3-531-11625-8
• Petra Dobner : New Social Question and Social Policy. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2007 ISBN 3-531-15241-6
• Daniel Bensaïd , Christophe Aguiton: Le Retour de la question sociale . Lausanne 1997 ISBN 2-940189-05-6
• Pierre Rosanvallon: La nouvelle question sociale. Points, essays . Paris 1995
• Pierre Rosanvallon: The new social question. Princeton University Press 2000

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1. ↑ Lexicon of Christian Democracy in Germany: New Social Question , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV, October 22, 2003
2. ^ Günter Krings: The new social question. In: welt.de . August 3, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Gabor Steingart: Lower Class Debate : The New Social Question. In: Spiegel Online . October 17, 2006, accessed June 10, 2018 . 
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