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Die Neuerfindung des Sozialen

Author : Stephan Lessenich
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383940746X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Die Neuerfindung des Sozialen written by Stephan Lessenich and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Sozialstaat befindet sich in einer Phase nachhaltiger Umbrüche. Dies ist mittlerweile Allgemeingut. Doch wie dieser Wandel, ja diese »Krise« näher zu bestimmen ist - darüber herrscht alles andere als Klarheit. Die vorherrschenden Diskurse über die Demontage bzw. den »neoliberalen« Rückzug des Sozialstaats greifen zu kurz. Dieses Buch schlägt dagegen vor, den Wandel vom (ver-)sorgenden zum aktivierenden und investiven Sozialstaat als fundamentale Achsenverschiebung im Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft zu verstehen: als Neuerfindung des Sozialen. Es zeigt die Konturen einer »Aktivgesellschaft«, in der Mobilität, Flexibilität und Produktivität zu politischen Steuerungsformeln individuellen Selbstzwangs verkommen. Nicht länger das Wohlergehen der einzelnen Bürger steht im Vordergrund, sondern vielmehr die Wohlfahrt der »gesellschaftlichen Gemeinschaft«. Damit wird nicht weniger als das Grundversprechen der Moderne aufgegeben: ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen.

The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom

Author : Jan Dobbernack
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137338849
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom written by Jan Dobbernack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective. This book draws attention to the connection between the cohesive society and the active society. It explores France, Germany and the United Kingdom and challenges the claim that the active conduct of problematic populations can save society from collapse.

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Author : Peter C. Caldwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570528
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State by : Peter C. Caldwell

Download or read book Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State written by Peter C. Caldwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration of democracy, and National Socialist dictatorship after 1930. Three central issues emerged. First, the development of a nearly all-embracing set of social services and payments recast the problem of how social groups and interests related to the state, as state agencies and affected groups generated their own clientele, their own advocacy groups, and their own expert information. Second, the welfare state blurred the line between state and society that is constitutive of basic rights and the classic world of liberal freedom; rights became claims on the state, and social groups became integral parts of state administration. Third, the welfare state potentially reshaped the individual citizen, who became wrapped up with mandatory social insurance systems, provisioning of money and services related to social needs, and the regulation of everyday life. Peter C. Caldwell describes how West German experts sought to make sense of this vast array of state programs, expenditures, and bureaucracies aimed at solving social problems. Coming from backgrounds in politics, economics, law, social policy, sociology, and philosophy, they sought to conceptualize their state, which was now social (one German word for the welfare state is indeed Sozialstaat), and their society, which was permeated by state policies.

Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe

Author : Shana Cohen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447331060
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe by : Shana Cohen

Download or read book Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe written by Shana Cohen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding needs, from basic items such as food to more complex means to move out of poverty. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and practitioners in several areas of social intervention, the book explores how the conceptualization and constitutive practices of citizenship and community are changing because of the retreat of the State and the challenge of meeting social and material needs, creating new opportunities for local activism. The book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective, and State responsibility.

Children and Adolescents in Times of Crises in Europe

Author : Marc Grimm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030163318
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Children and Adolescents in Times of Crises in Europe written by Marc Grimm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the impact of the social crisis on the well-being of children and adolescents in Europe. Focusing on the fields of health, employment and social status, this book highlights that the impact of crisis has to be viewed in light of the state policies in reaction to crisis. Chapters in the book offer new perspectives of a reflexive crisis research objectifying crisis and analyzing what is referred to as crisis by whom, how, for what purposes and with which implicit or explicit solutions. This book offers empirical evidence and unique analytical approaches in the field of a child- and adolescent-oriented crisis research.

Germany's Hidden Crisis

Author : Oliver Nachtwey
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786636352
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Germany's Hidden Crisis written by Oliver Nachtwey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the "old" West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their VWs to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today's Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called "elevator society" have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in post-war German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result, concluding that although the country has managed to muddle through the Eurocrisis largely unscathed thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system's stability in the years to come. Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's 2016 Hans-Matthfer-Preis for Economic Writing.

Governmentality

Author : Ulrich Bröckling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136934537
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Governmentality written by Ulrich Bröckling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. Contributors highlight the differences as well as possible convergences with alternative theoretical frameworks. By assembling authors with a wide range of different disciplinary backgrounds, from philosophy, literature, political science, sociology to medical anthropology, the book offers a fresh perspective on studies of governmentality.

Dramas of Dignity

Author : Jana Costas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108676979
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Dramas of Dignity written by Jana Costas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city center, this book goes behind-the-scenes with the cleaners who pick up cigarette butts from sidewalks, scrape chewing gum from marble floors, wipe coffee stains from office desks and scrub public toilets, long before white-collar workers, consumers and tourists enter the complex. It follows Costas's journey to a large yet hidden, four-level deep corporate underworld below Potsdamer Platz. There, Costas discovers how cleaners' attitudes to work are much less straightforward than the public perceptions of cleaning as degrading work would suggest. Cleaners turn to their work for dignity yet find it elusive. The book explores how these cleaners' dramas of dignity unfold in interactions with co-workers, management, clients and the public. The book will appeal to students and academics in the fields of organisational theory, organisational behavior, organisation studies, sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies and urban studies.

Capitalism and Labor

Author : Klaus Dörre
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593508974
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Labor written by Klaus Dörre and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social theory has largely abandoned a focus on labor and with it its empirical foundation, while the sociology of work has neglected the production of theory more generally. It is for precisely this reason that Capitalism and labor has become a standard work on this subject. Labor and employment relations have become both increasingly diverse as well as less secure while, at the same time, labor and distributional struggles are being waged ever more fiercely. Adequately grasping these changes requires innovative impulses emerging from the analysis of capitalism, just as the sociology of work has a lot to contribute to the former. In this translated and updated edition the authors discuss current theoretical approachers in an attempt to once again conceive capitalism and labor together"--Back cover.

The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy

Author : Linda Miller
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526415690
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy written by Linda Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent authoritative evidence suggests that an estimated 200 million children under five fail to achieve their developmental potential due to factors including poor health and nutrition and the lack of stable high quality care. A significant number of the world’s children today lack the basic rights to health, development and protection. In light of such statistics, early childhood services for young children have expanded around the world. The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy draws critical attention to policy in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) its relationship to service provision and its impact on the lives of children and families. The perspectives of leading academics and researchers from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australasia and Asia have been arranged around five key themes: Part 1: The Relationship Between Research, Policy And Practice: Country Case Studies Part 2: Equitable Early Childhood Services: Intervention to Improve Children’s Life Chances Part 3: Extending Practice: The Role of Early Childhood Services In Family Support Part 4: Participation, Rights and Diversity Part 5: Future Directions for Early Childhood Policy This handbook is essential reading for practitioners, stakeholders and others committed to working within early years services to achieve an awareness of policy and its implications for services and practice.

The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations

Author : Frank Sowa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351619942
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations written by Frank Sowa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in different developed welfare states? New managerialism is conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also affects the practice of individuals (citizens). Public administrations have been expected to transform from traditional bureaucratic organizations into modern managerial service providers by adopting a business model that requires the efficient and effective use of resources. The introduction of managerial practices, controlling and accounting systems, management by objectives, computerization, service orientation, increased outsourcing, competitive structures and decentralized responsibility are typical of efforts to increase efficiency. These developments have been accompanied by the abolition of civil service systems and fewer secure jobs in public administrations. This book provides a sociological understanding of how public administrations deal with this transformation, how people’s role as public servants is affected, and what kind of strategies emerge either to meet these new organizational requirements or to circumvent them. It shows how hybrid arrangements of public services are created between the public and the private sphere that lead to conflicts of interest between private strategies and public tasks as well as to increasingly homogeneous social welfare provision across Europe.

Resonance

Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509519920
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Resonance written by Hartmut Rosa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.” The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we must consider our relationship to, or resonance with, the world. Applying his theory of resonance to many domains of human activity, Rosa describes the full spectrum of ways in which we establish our relationship to the world, from the act of breathing to the adoption of culturally distinct worldviews. He then turns to the realms of concrete experience and action – family and politics, work and sports, religion and art – in which we as late modern subjects seek out resonance. This task is proving ever more difficult as modernity’s logic of escalation is both cause and consequence of a distorted relationship to the world, at individual and collective levels. As Rosa shows, all the great crises of modern society – the environmental crisis, the crisis of democracy, the psychological crisis – can also be understood and analyzed in terms of resonance and our broken relationship to the world around us. Building on his now classic work on acceleration, Rosa’s new book is a major new contribution to the theory of modernity, showing how our problematic relation to the world is at the crux of some of the most pressing issues we face today. This bold renewal of critical theory for our times will be of great interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.

Welfare Beyond the Welfare State

Author : Felix Behling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319652230
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Welfare Beyond the Welfare State written by Felix Behling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare systems with surprisingly few differences between the UK and Germany. Maintaining that employee welfare is a key feature of the modern employment relationship, Behling shows how the welfare programme supported industrialisation in the 19th century by cementing the standard employment model of the Fifties and Sixties, as well as how it revolves around corporate social responsibility today. The result is an innovative exploration into the changing nature of employment relationships, contemporary welfare systems, and the co-evolutionary - rather than categorical - development of economic and political institutions. An engaging and well-researched text, this book will hold special appeal to scholars of social policy, welfare politics, as well as anyone interested in the role of the state in people’s working lives.

Sociology, Capitalism, Critique

Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689334
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Sociology, Capitalism, Critique written by Hartmut Rosa and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded diagnosis of society’s ills. The authors, Germany’s leading critical sociologists—Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa—share a conviction that ours is a pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working to prevent any regressive development that might return us to neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society’s future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation in the institutional practices of the academy. These three differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in capitalism’s post-crisis phase.

Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality

Author : Anne-Marie d'Aoust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317549260
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality written by Anne-Marie d'Aoust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced capitalism is characterized by a level of symbolic production that not only results in a dematerialization of labor, but also increasingly relies on highly emotional components, ranging from consumption desire to workforce management. Feelings as varied as love, anger, and desire are integral to neoliberal processes, though not in unproblematic and monolithic ways. Whereas some accounts decry capitalism’s hold on the emotional realm, as the commodified search for soul mates through online dating sites or Starbucks’ promotion of fair-trade coffee suggest, others counter that emotions represent a privileged site of resistance to market rationality. Relying on different case studies ranging from drone strikes, the 2008 economic crisis in Ireland, and marriage migration management, this volume builds on this productive tension between subjection and resistance through the lenses of the concept of governmentality. Developed by Michel Foucault, governmentality sheds light on the ways in which economic and political life are now being managed through logics of security and economic calculations. This volume explores how individuals might become emotionally attached to regimes of power that are detrimental to them, how neoliberal processes are concomitant with the valorization of certain emotional dispositions, and how affective economies might provide a site of resistance. This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.

That Sinking Feeling

Author : Stefan Wellgraf
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390538
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book That Sinking Feeling written by Stefan Wellgraf and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.

Ethnographies of Deservingness

Author : Jelena Tošić
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736002
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographies of Deservingness written by Jelena Tošić and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.