Definition of Social status
The Social State, designated also as a Social State of law, is a concept that has had its origin in the German political culture and we can locate it at the beginning of the German State, as after having gone through a series of transformations, today, we can say that political ideological system of Social market economy forms the basis. The welfare State as a fundamental mission proposes to strengthen services and ensure those rights considered to be essential for individuals to thus maintain the standard of living required for full membership of the society; These include: health care, public education, access to housing, work, compensation, unemployment insurance, real access to cultural resources, assistance for old age and invalidity, protection of the environment, guarantee social rights in the legislation in force. A Social State that practice each one of its functions will provide the integration to the less-favoured social classes, will compensate for inequalities, redistribute income. And to achieve this state of affairs is that used instruments such as education. The concept that we are discussing has an ideologue, the influential economist and German sociologist Lorenz Von Stein, who exerted an important influence in the mid-19th century in Germany. Stein argued that the welfare State was a concrete way to avoid revolution. As according to the society ceased to be a unity as a result of the existence of social classes that makes everyone inevitably go after their own interests regardless of the rest and lead to dictatorial States, then, in these circumstances can be a revolution. However, the welfare State proposed is able to initiate a reform in this regard and indeed improve the quality of life of the lower classes, avoiding the natural process of the social classes of wanting to climb socially.