Functions of social security (Kunissen, ch 2)
•Functions – „general aims“,  satisfaction of certain needs/achievement of certain purposes by
policy action
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•Objetives – specification how the needs should be satisfied (in what extent, what quality)
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•Principles – general guidelines/preferences for making choices of the objectives
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Key functions
•Security (lowering risks directly and inderectly, moderating impacts of risks – social
consumption)
•Re-distributing resources (life-cycle, horizontal, vertical, intergenerational – social
consumption)
•Shaping social structure (reducing insecurity and inequality),
•(+ equalising life-chances, opportunities - social mobility)
•Incentivising and enabling, empowering (incentives to work, to save, developments of capabilities
– social investments)
•Socialising individuals (shared norms and values, social integration)
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•Controlling function, Legitimasing function