Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy

IF 2.3 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-07-09 DOI:10.1177/02610183231185760
Katharina V. Hajek
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Social investment has gained increasing prominence in family policy reform. It has also been widely criticised from a feminist and social justice perspective. This article examines how the meaning of the family changes when it is seen as a site of investment. Using a discourse-analytical approach and focusing on agenda setting policy documents of Germany's ‘sustainable family policy’ this is explored in four dimensions: the extension and simultaneous narrowing of the meaning of family; the articulation of new gendered subjectivities; a redefinition of the boundaries between the family and the state; and new modes of differentiation between families according to their ability to ‘produce’ human capital. I argue that the traditional family loses its role as a normative reference point and is increasingly framed as a production site of human capital. Hence, more critical engagement with social and racialized inequalities, which are implied in these discourses, is necessary.
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生产性和危险性:在社会政策中投资于家庭
社会投资在家庭政策改革中日益突出。从女权主义和社会正义的角度来看,它也受到了广泛的批评。本文探讨了当家庭被视为一个投资场所时,家庭的意义是如何变化的。运用话语分析的方法,并以德国“可持续家庭政策”的议程设置政策文件为重点,从四个方面进行了探讨:家庭意义的延伸和同时缩小;新性别主体性的表达;重新定义家庭与国家之间的界限;以及根据家庭“生产”人力资本的能力来区分家庭的新模式。我认为,传统家庭失去了其作为规范性参照点的作用,越来越多地被视为人力资本的生产场所。因此,有必要对这些话语中隐含的社会和种族不平等进行更批判性的接触。
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期刊介绍: Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;
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