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Caught in the Middle? Welfare State Legitimisation and Problematisation in German and Swedish Middle-class Discourse

机译：被夹在中间？德国和瑞典中产阶级话语中的福利国家合法化和问题化

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When it comes to evaluating social and political developments, the category of the middle class takes a central position in public debates. The same holds true for welfare state research which assigns a vital role to the middle class, especially when redistributive measures have to be stabilised and legitimised. However, in these debates, it is largely overlooked that the middle class is an ambiguous concept which can bear a variety of meanings and argumentative functions. Against this background, this paper does not want to investigate what the middle class is, but rather how it gains meaning in discursive practices in different societies. Empirically, we compare German and Swedish media debates in regard to how meaning is attributed to the middle-class category as well as regarding the latter's role in the legitimisation and problematisation of the welfare state. The analysis reveals that while in the German discourse the middle class' well-being is considered to be the major aim of the welfare state and for the benefit of the whole society, the Swedish discourse is split into two threads: one which criticises the middle class for furthering social gaps and a second one which accuses the universal welfare state for constraining the autonomy of middle-class members. We argue that these differences between (and within) both discourses are due to different interpretive schemes which are anchored in the respective sociocultural context. The analysis thus demonstrates the additional value of an interpretive perspective which helps understanding the specific ways in which the welfare state becomes the object of political debate in different societies.
机译：在评估社会和政治发展时，中产阶级类别在公共辩论中占据中心地位。福利国家研究也是如此，它对中产阶级起着至关重要的作用，尤其是在必须稳定和合法化再分配措施的时候。但是，在这些辩论中，中产阶级是一个模棱两可的概念，可以带有多种含义和论据功能，在很大程度上被忽略了。在这种背景下，本文不想研究中产阶级是什么，而是要研究中产阶级如何在不同社会的话语实践中获得意义。从经验上讲，我们将德国和瑞典的媒体辩论就中产阶级如何赋予意义以及中产阶级在福利国家的合法化和问题化中的作用进行了比较。分析表明，尽管在德国话语中，中产阶级的福祉被认为是福利国家的主要目标，并且是为了整个社会的利益，但瑞典语却被分为两个线程：一个批评中产阶级。一类是为了进一步扩大社会差距，第二类是指普遍福利国家限制中产阶级成员的自治。我们认为，两种话语之间（之内）的这些差异是由于不同的阐释方案所根植于各自的社会文化环境中。因此，分析表明了解释性观点的附加价值，该观点有助于理解福利国家成为不同社会中政治辩论的对象的特定方式。

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