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Antoinette Hetzler

Antoinette Hetzler

Professor emerita

Antoinette Hetzler

Sweden - Cultural and Institutional Dimensions of Developing and Reforming Social Security Systems

Author

  • Antoinette Hetzler

Editor

  • Denis Frank
  • Anders Kjellberg
  • Antoinette Hetzler

Summary, in English

The paper gives a brief presentation of the cultural and institutional specificities of Sweden and how these cultural and institutional specificities impact the development of the Swedish social welfare system over periods of change, transition and strategic adjustment. The paper concludes by presenting a suggestion of a new view of the relationship between culture and social welfare systems, which questions the ability of neo-liberal ideology and political-institutional alignments to suceed if they abandon traditional cultural and institutional demands of balancing the dual social security goals of efficiency and equality.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Publication/Series

Conference Papers in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life and Mobility

Volume

2010:1

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Sociology, Lund University

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • social change
  • cultural change
  • Swedish social welfare
  • social security
  • institutional demands and welfare
  • sociology
  • sociologi

Conference name

5th International Conference on Social Security for Asia

Conference date

2009-09-11 - 2009-09-13

Conference place

Beijing, China

Status

Published

Research group

  • Välfärd, Socialförsäkring och Arbetsliv

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 91-7267-307-9