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“Bedürftigkeit” and Cohesion in the Activating Welfare State

In: Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion? On Marginalization in an Inclusive Society, hg. von Yudit Namer, Anne Stöcker, Amani Ashour, Janine Dieckmann, Philipp Schmidt und Carmen Zurbriggen, 86–101. Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt 7. Frankfurt: Campus

Authors

Jennifer Eckhardt

Abstract

“Bedürftigkeit” and Cohesion in the Activating Welfare State

This article deals with a central German welfare category, “Bedürftigkeit”, which determines whether a person is eligible to receive welfare assistance. The article examines its oscillation between a socio-statistical category, a societal category, and as an element of the basic constitution of human being. Based on a study on non-request of social benefits, it explains how the rise of activation policies successively replaced the figure of the social state citizen with that of an active citizen, one who can circumvent Bedürftigkeit by own efforts—if they only want it enough.

Sources

Eckhardt, Jennifer. 2024. “Bedürftigkeit” and Cohesion in the Activating Welfare State. In: Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion? On Marginalization in an Inclusive Society, hg. von Yudit Namer, Anne Stöcker, Amani Ashour, Janine Dieckmann, Philipp Schmidt und Carmen Zurbriggen, 86–101. 1. Aufl. Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt 7. Frankfurt: Campus, 19.06.2024. url: https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/intersectional_challenges_to_cohesion-17944.html.

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