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Social Professional Activity - The Search for a Minimum Common Denominator in Difference (Hardcover)
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Social Professional Activity - The Search for a Minimum Common Denominator in Difference (Hardcover)
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There is an ongoing debate on the question if professional
activities in the field of the social do actually have a genuinely
'own' scientific basis or if their academic standing depends
entirely on other disciplines as sociology, economics,
administration or law. The present book offers an answer - by
actually twisting the question into another direction: the question
for the common denominator should not be employed by looking for
the original disciplinary basis. Instead, it is more important to
look at a common point of reference towards which activities - and
research - can be geared. The editors propose human rights as such
reference and make in their own introductory contribution clear
that any contemplation on such rights cannot be limited on abstract
moral and normative questions nor can it be left to the
arbitrariness of cultural relativism. It is proposed to develop a
systematic approach, not starting from a translation of abstract
principles into their application in concrete situations. On the
contrary, the concrete human practice and its analysis has to be
taken as focal point. Some of the contributions directly take this
topic up as matter by way of engaging in a general methodological
discussion whereas other contributions deal with specific aspects
of a field of social professions, showing the necessary variety of
the pieces of a jigsaw on its own. The volume motivates students,
scholars and professionals researching and working in the social
array to think outside their ancestral box, focussing on sound and
reasoned values rather than allowing abstract professional
standards to take over.
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