Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters - The Influence of Bureaucracy, Market and Psychology

Informationen zum Autor Nanna Mik-Meyer is Professor in Sociology in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction Part I Power and professions in welfare work 2 Professions, de-professionalisation and welfare work3 Soft power and welfare work4 Powerful encounters as seen from an interactionist perspective Part II The bureaucratic, market and psychology-inspired contexts 5 The bureaucratic context: administrator-client6 The market context: service-consumer7 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 ConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Nanna Mik-Meyer, Mik-Meyer Nanna
• Assisted by: Mark Haugaard (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781526110282
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1028-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Social and Political Power Mup; Social and Political Power; Social and Political Power; Social and Political Power Mup
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Political science and theory, Welfare and benefit systems