The Giddens's Positive Social Welfare

This article researchs systematically the newest westen social welfare thought—the Giddens's positive social welfare thought, and makes effort to derive beneficial reference to our country's social security system reform from it. The full text is composed of five parts:The first part introduced the significance of this research,the present research situation of Giddens's positive social welfare thought, the content, the method and the innovation spot of this research.The second part elaborated the evolution of the westen social welfare thought and the production of the positive social welfare thought:the westen welfare state has experienced the national intervention and the new liberalism,again to the third way theory,the positive social welfare thought is the core thought among the third way theory.The third part expounds Giddens's the criticism on the westen social welfare thought from three aspects. Giddens analyzes the difference between the left and the right, after that analysis the definition of"the welfare state"from the constitutive origin of the welfare state, finally gives his opinion to the crisis essence of the welfare state from the risk angle.The fourth part elaborated the Giddens's proposition of the positive welfare thought. Giddens advocated the thorough reform to the welfare state. He proposed the principle of"no rights without responsibilities",advocated the main body of social welfare is from the country to the multiple, the financial expenditure is from providing welfare to education and training, namely"from the welfare to the work". The goal of carring out the positive welfare policy is"from welfare state to social investment state".The fifth part gives an overall evalution to the Giddens's positive social welfare thought,including the impact, the evalution and the inspiration.