The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters
The Influence of Bureaucracy, Market and Psychology
Seiten
2017
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1028-2 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1028-2 (ISBN)
This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions. -- .
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science. -- .
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science. -- .
Nanna Mik-Meyer is Professor in Sociology in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School -- .
1 Introduction
Part I Power and professions in welfare work
2 Professions, de-professionalisation and welfare work
3 Soft power and welfare work
4 Powerful encounters as seen from an interactionist perspective
Part II The bureaucratic, market and psychology-inspired contexts
5 The bureaucratic context: administrator-client
6 The market context: service-consumer
7 The psychology-inspired context: coach-coachee
Part III Welfare encounters in practice
8 The power of bureaucracy, market and psychology in citizen-staff encounters
9 Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social and Political Power |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-1028-8 / 1526110288 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-1028-2 / 9781526110282 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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