2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Social inclusion in the individualized society. U.Beck's Buergerarbeit

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23530681
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Otsuma Women's University
Principal Investigator	ITO Midori 大妻女子大学, 人間関係学部, 教授 (10406845)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	市民労働 / ベック / 社会的包摂 / 市民活動 / 個人化
Research Abstract	U.Beck proposed a policy idea, named Buergerarbeit, to build a system of solidarity and recognition on a local level in the second half of 1990's. The aims of this research are to search its transformation and to examine what kind of system of solidarity and recognition is built in Germany. Following findings of the research are worth being mentioned: Some elements of Beck's policy idea of Buergerarbeit were adopted by the civil engagement and other by the republican model project named Buergerarbeit as a workfare policy. Now, the civil engagement and the Buergerarbeit as a workfare policy take over respectively some function of intermediate groups or of the welfare state. When Beck had proposed the policy idea of Buergerarbeit, he had aimed to give social identity and livelihood to the voluntary participants. This part is not realized for the present.