Nanna Mik-Meyer, Kaspar Villardsen

Power and Welfare (eBook, PDF)

Understanding Citizens' Encounters with State Welfare

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When the state punishes criminals or removes children at risk, its power is immediately apparent. However, power is also at stake when the state seeks to educate, advise, or empower citizens, and this book encourages reflection on the exercise of professional power in these less coercive encounters.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136286643
• Artikelnr.: 38457655

Autorenporträt

Nanna Mik-Meyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Organization and the Director of the Center for Health Management at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Kaspar Villadsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Foucault: The Flexible Critique of Welfare 3. Goffman:
Interaction and Identity Negotiations 4. Bourdieu: Field, Symbolic Violence
and Domination 5. Luhmann: Welfare in Communicative Systems 6.
Neo-Institutional Theory: Myths and Legitimacy 7. Risk Theory: Normality,
Deviation and Neo-Liberalism 8. Transcending the Approaches