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

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Nanna Mik-Meyer, Mik-Meyer Nanna
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781526110299
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1029-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Social and Political Power
• 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