Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy.

Autor/in	Hajek, Katharina
Titel	Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Produktiv und riskant: Investitionen in Familien in der Sozialpolitik.
Quelle	In: Critical social policy, 44 (2024) 1, S. 87-105 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-703X
DOI	10.1177/02610183231185760
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Rollenwandel; Soziale Ungleichheit; Familie; Frau; Gleichstellung; Elterngeld; Elternzeit; Familienpolitik; Förderung; Kind; Gesetz; Reformpolitik; Sozialinvestition; Humankapital; Investition; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Auswirkung; Diskurs; Deutschland
Abstract	"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." The study refers to the period 2002-2008. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1