European sense of "social liberalism" emerged in late 19th century when social meant economic problems of mass society (c.f. "social gospel"). American sense in 1960s from "new social movements" (i.e. feminism, LGBT, civil rights).
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Worth noting that US socialists in the 1930s were fluent in the language of ‘the social question’ to mean economic equality.
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Historically (since early modernity) in Continental Europe there was bureaucracy before democracy, therefore society/social denoted something opposite the state. In the 19th century the social question was synonymous with the class conflict. Protagonists for the welfare state 1/2
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were socialists/Labour Movement *and* Social Catholicism/Conservatives. There were no social liberals in Continental Europe (either national or civic l.), maybe though social liberals in England. Nordic welfare state came later, in the 20th century. Cf. Gøsta Esping-Anderson
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