社会变迁与社会福利建设:吉登斯社会福利思想探析

Social Change and Social Welfare Construction: Giddens' Thoughts on Social Welfare

吉登斯不同意后现代主义关于"现代性"已经结束的观点,他认为今天的"反思性社会"及其面临的人造风险仅仅是现代性的一个高级发展阶段而已,为了应对这种人造风险,除了摒弃解放政治、树立生活政治以外,社会福利制度建设中应该摒弃以往那种片面强调个人权利而忽视个人义务的做法,将重点放在培养个人的就业能力上来,并努力实现福利主体的多元主义。

Giddens did not agree to the post-modernism view of the end of the modernity. In his opinion, the reflective sociality and the man-made risk were only the higher development process. The emphasis on personal right and ignoring of personal obligation should be prevented for the construction of social welfare system. What should be emphasized was to train the personal employment ability and realize the pluralism of the welfare subjects.