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The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld - Paradox and Agency in the Policy Process (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld - Paradox and Agency in the Policy Process (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The key questions addressed in this book relate to how we should
understand social welfare today. Is it a mechanism for promoting
the virtues of altruism and other-regarding social values through
the design of compassionate social policies which seek to enhance
the quality of social relationships between citizens, or, is it a
self-reproducing sub-system of law and politics which operates in
accordance with its own internal logic, independently of the human
agents who try to steer it towards benign social outcomes? This
book questions whether the language of the enlightenment is the
most appropriate to describe a socio-political project that is
struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing economic and
political conditions which now exist in a neo-liberal global
world.The main sociological theorists guiding the analysis here are
Niklas Luhmann, Jurgen Habermas and Norbert Elias, among others.
The key themes analysed in the book are street-level bureaucracy
and the interface between the welfare system and the citizen;
sensemaking in welfare organisations and in society; the
relationship between lay morality and the policy making process;
the link between the third sector and philanthrocapitalism; and the
emotional dimension of social policy, especially in relation to
social work practice. It will appeal to social science students of
social and political theory, as well as those seeking an
understanding of the changing context of contemporary issues in
social policy.
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