全球化與社會福利

Globalization and Its Impact on Social Welfare Development

周永新(Nelson Chow)

《社會政策與社會工作學刊》 7卷2期 (2003/12) Pp. 1-13

https://doi.org/10.6785/SPSW.200312.0001

摘要

本文除前言外共分三部份。第一部份討論全球化帶來的契機和恐懼。全球化帶來前所未見有的發展機會：消除阻隔、促進資訊流通、擴闊視野。不過，全球化亦同時使人感到困惑、加劇貧富懸殊、限制多元化的生活。第二部份討論社會福利的宏觀發展，指出現今的潮流是從制度化福利轉向個人的權益和選擇，「小政府」取代過往的「福利國家」。第三部份分析在全球化影響下，社會上出現了新的衛突和矛盾，製造了新的貧困階層，亟需新的社會福利政策的出現。結論是不同社會在全球化下必須重新定位，並在保障人民福利的大前提下，制定適合本身情況的社會福利政策。

關鍵字

全球化 ； 社會福利 ； 權利和選擇 ； 社會政策

並列摘要

Other than the introduction, this paper consists of three parts. The first part discusses the impact of globalization. While globalization brings unprecedented development opportunities, removes misunderstandings, promotes communications and widers our perspectives, it also increases uncertainties, widers the gap between the rich and the poor and limits choices. The second part examines the world trend of social welfare development and finds that, under the influence of globalization, the pattern has changed from an emphasis on institutional welfare to one of stressing individual rights and choices. The ”welfare state” model has also been overtaken by the preference of a ”small government”. The third part points out that new tensions have been created, as well as a new class of poor people and that there is a call for a new social policy. There is no simple solution for every society to follow in its social welfare development but the principle is that each must find its own way to protect the welfare of its people.

並列關鍵字

globalization ； social welfare ； rights and choices ； social policy

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