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Author(s): John J. Rodger

ISBN(s): 9781527538863, 1527538869

Edition: 1

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Year: 2019

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1527538869
ISBN 13: 9781527538863
Author: John J Rodger

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, Jürgen 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.

The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld Paradox and Agency in the Policy Process 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Social Welfare as an Autopoietic System

Introduction
System Integration and Social Integration
The Paradox of the Welfare State
Outline of the Book

Chapter One: Sociological Theory and the Welfare System

The Semantics of the Enlightenment and Luhmann’s Anti-Humanism
The Differentiation of Society and Human Rights
Civilising and De-civilising Tendencies in a Differentiated Society
The Social Policy Context of British Social Welfare
Concluding Comments

Chapter Two: The Economic System and the Colonisation of the Third Sector: The Role of Financialisation and Neo-Philanthropy

Introduction
Financialisation
The Active Citizen and the Civil Society Strategy
The New Philanthropists as the Conscience of New Capitalism
The Colonisation of the Social Lifeworld
Concluding Comments

Chapter Three: Street-Level Bureaucracy and Welfare Organisations

Introduction: Systems Theory and Street-Level Bureaucracies
Michael Lipsky’s Perspective on Street-Level Bureaucracy
The Client-Processing Mentality
Applying Lipsky’s Perspective
Karl Weick’s Theory of Sensemaking in Complex Organisations
Recursivity in the theories of Weick and Luhmann
Concluding Comments

Part II: The Social Lifeworld in a Society of Autopoietic Systems

Chapter Four: The Bridge between Lifeworld and System

Introduction
Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law
The Political Public Sphere
Lay Morality and the Social Lifeworld
The Mass Media System
Concluding Comments

Chapter Five: Human Emotion and the Paradox of Social Work

Introduction
Homines Aperti: The History of Human Nature
Other Directedness and Synthetic Emotions
The Managed Heart
The Paradox of Social Work and Social Care
Resolving the Paradoxical Nature of Social Work
Law’s Authoritative Voice in Social Work
Concluding Comments

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