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The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters: The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology (Social and Political Power) - Softcover

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Mik-Meyer, Nanna

 
9781526110299: The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters: The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology (Social and Political Power)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526110296 ISBN 13: 9781526110299
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nanna Mik-Meyer is Professor in Sociology in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School

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This book addresses the crucial issue of the interrelation between macro and micro structures within citizen-professional encounters of the modern welfare state. Since the 1990s, European welfare states have moved towards a so-called governance approach; a bottom-up approach that emphasises the activeness, engagement, co-production, and cooperation of citizens. This framing of the encounter means that citizens are no longer best described as the passive clients of the bureaucracy, and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. However, the welfare encounter is structured by other factors as well; factors such as market values and bureaucratic principles which often pull in different directions than the governance approach to citizens. Nevertheless, most current research is inspired by either a Weberian approach (highlighting bureaucratic principle) or a Foucauldian approach (often referring to market values or norms from psychology) and therefore singularly fails to adequately grasp the complexities of the empirical world. For this reason, this book engages with the sociology of professions as well as both Weberian and Foucauldian inspired approaches to the welfare encounter in order to qualify its analyses.

Aside from chapters on the sociology of professions, symbolic interactionism, power in welfare encounters, bureaucratic principles, market values, norms from psychology, the book includes a double-length chapter that qualifies the conclusions through empirical analyses of encounters between citizens and doctors, caseworkers and social workers. The book will be of interest to academics, postgraduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526110296
ISBN 13 
9781526110299
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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