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Friday 26 March 2021 14.30 - 15.45
K-11 SOC12a Charity in Europe and Beyond I
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Network: Social Inequality Chair: Maurits den Hollander
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Thomas M. Adams : Continuity in Europe's Welfare Traditions
This paper will emphasize long-term continuities underlying the checkered history of charity, public assistance, and social discipline in Western Europe since 1500. Key elements of an ever-evolving modern European social policy came into focus in the sixteenth century and continue to inform intertwined European traditions. This paper will ... (Show more)
This paper will emphasize long-term continuities underlying the checkered history of charity, public assistance, and social discipline in Western Europe since 1500. Key elements of an ever-evolving modern European social policy came into focus in the sixteenth century and continue to inform intertwined European traditions. This paper will trace continuities in the workings of beneficence enacted through law, in the commitment to empirical observation, in the valuation of work, and in the awareness that behavior and its motivations are socially conditioned. (Show less)

Preeti Chopra : Native Charity and the Creation of a Charitable & Religious Infrastructure for European Sojourner Colonialism in Western India
In colonial India, the British were sojourners rather than settlers. They ruled over millions that were, in general, culturally, racially, and religiously distinct from Europeans. From the late eighteenth-century, after the establishment of colonial rule from 1757, the British began to segregate themselves, culturally, socially and spatially, from ... (Show more)
In colonial India, the British were sojourners rather than settlers. They ruled over millions that were, in general, culturally, racially, and religiously distinct from Europeans. From the late eighteenth-century, after the establishment of colonial rule from 1757, the British began to segregate themselves, culturally, socially and spatially, from their entanglements with native populations in the subcontinent. A constant of the colonial governance of India was the desire to keep the cost of governance to a minimum. Thus, the colonial government limited its responsibility for the care of the millions they ruled over. Native charity and philanthropy were expected and encouraged to wholly or partially pay for the religious, medical, charitable, and educational infrastructure for natives. In contrast to this infrastructure for the native inhabitants of the subcontinent, how was a sojourner population expected to establish an infrastructure for Europeans? Who would take care of the European poor? This paper focuses on native charitable contributions for the benefit of Europeans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in western India. In doing so, it reveals that native charitable gifting practices contributed to the creation of an European religious and charitable infrastructure for what I call, in contrast to settler colonialism, sojourner colonialism. (Show less)

Jan Maas : Max Weber’s Ideal of a Bureaucracy and the Municipal Poor Relief Administration in Amsterdam 1870 – 1940
In this paper I would like to investigate the working of the municipal poor relief administration in Amsterdam between 1870 and 1940. My bench mark will be the theory of Max Weber about bureaucracy. In what way de poor relief administration developed along the theory of Max Weber?
Interesting sources are ... (Show more)
In this paper I would like to investigate the working of the municipal poor relief administration in Amsterdam between 1870 and 1940. My bench mark will be the theory of Max Weber about bureaucracy. In what way de poor relief administration developed along the theory of Max Weber?
Interesting sources are the reports of the municipal visitor of the poor applying for help. Another source is the annual reports from the municipal poor relief administration tot the municipal council of Amsterdam in which the activities and finances are justified.
These sources can shed some light at the question raised. (Show less)



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