Communicative Legitimacy: Habermas and Democratic Welfare Work 3030549488, 9783030549480
This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas’ theories of communicative action,
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction: Legitimacy Deficit
1.1 An Illustration
1.2 A New Dependency
1.3 Communicative Challenges
1.4 Purpose and Outline of the Book
References
2 A Social Paradigm
2.1 What Is the Social?
2.2 Threatening, Empty, Civilizing or Playful?
2.3 A Risk for Oversocializing?
2.4 The Social as Regulating Communicative Actions
2.5 Summary
References
3 Communicative Legitimacy
3.1 Intersubjectivity as Mutual Understanding
3.1.1 Mead’s Intersubjectivity
3.1.2 Habermas’s Reconstruction to Mutual Understanding
3.1.3 Habermas’s Clarification of “the Generalized Other“
3.2 From Everyday Life to Systems
3.2.1 Social and System Integration
3.2.2 Everyday Horizons, the Lifeworld
3.2.3 System
3.3 Morality and Law
3.3.1 From Moralizing to Social Policy
3.3.2 Different Assignments for Morality and Law
3.3.3 The Legitimacy Gap
3.3.4 Discourse Theory of Morality4
3.3.5 Moral Feelings
3.3.6 Human Rights as Modern, Universal Values
3.4 Welfare Administrations
3.4.1 Power
3.4.2 The Client’s Role
3.4.3 The Professional’s Role
3.4.4 The Citizen’s Role
3.5 Summary
References
4 Conclusions: Legitimacy Challenges
4.1 Help and Control
4.2 Solidarity and Justice
4.3 Individual Freedom and Collective Will
4.3.1 Individualization
4.3.2 Collective Will
4.4 Recommendations for Welfare Work Professions
4.4.1 Professional Knowledge Requirements
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction: Legitimacy Deficit
1.1 An Illustration
1.2 A New Dependency
1.3 Communicative Challenges
1.4 Purpose and Outline of the Book
References
2 A Social Paradigm
2.1 What Is the Social?
2.2 Threatening, Empty, Civilizing or Playful?
2.3 A Risk for Oversocializing?
2.4 The Social as Regulating Communicative Actions
2.5 Summary
References
3 Communicative Legitimacy
3.1 Intersubjectivity as Mutual Understanding
3.1.1 Mead’s Intersubjectivity
3.1.2 Habermas’s Reconstruction to Mutual Understanding
3.1.3 Habermas’s Clarification of “the Generalized Other“
3.2 From Everyday Life to Systems
3.2.1 Social and System Integration
3.2.2 Everyday Horizons, the Lifeworld
3.2.3 System
3.3 Morality and Law
3.3.1 From Moralizing to Social Policy
3.3.2 Different Assignments for Morality and Law
3.3.3 The Legitimacy Gap
3.3.4 Discourse Theory of Morality4
3.3.5 Moral Feelings
3.3.6 Human Rights as Modern, Universal Values
3.4 Welfare Administrations
3.4.1 Power
3.4.2 The Client’s Role
3.4.3 The Professional’s Role
3.4.4 The Citizen’s Role
3.5 Summary
References
4 Conclusions: Legitimacy Challenges
4.1 Help and Control
4.2 Solidarity and Justice
4.3 Individual Freedom and Collective Will
4.3.1 Individualization
4.3.2 Collective Will
4.4 Recommendations for Welfare Work Professions
4.4.1 Professional Knowledge Requirements
References
Index
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