Social Quality - Looking for a Global Social Policy - Attempting an Approximation to the Analysis of Distances of Social Systems

Global (social) policy, human rights discussions and the UN-strive for Human Development and Human Security are all caught in two fundamental traps: The one is that they take a specific model of existing developed countries i.e. advanced capitalism as sole ideal without seriously reflecting other advanced models. A possible alternative if imagined is at most proposed by romanticised imaginations of a good society, in many cases referring to some kind of innocent goodness of indigenous ways of life. The other trap is not far from the said alternatives a reference to abstract and isolated concepts of justice, freedom etc., referring to moral statements, however, isolating them from wider systematic socio-economic and politico-judicative thinking. The present volume attempts the difficult task of combining from a socio-philosophical perspective political economy and social law in order to develop an understanding of public responsibility for social quality in a global ambit. Special features of the volume are an introduction into the social quality approach, an excursus looking at Islam societies, and an excursus, looking at Asian understandings.

About the author

Der Autor ist adjunct professor an der Universitaet Kuopio, Finnland (ab 1.1.2010 University of Eastern Finland) und adjunct senior lecturer an der Universitaet Cork, Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Herrmann
• Assisted by: Ming Fang Chen (Editor), Min Fang Chen (Editor), Ming Fang Chen (Editor)
• Publisher: EHV Academicpress
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9783941482043
• ISBN: 978-3-941482-04-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 21 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 486 g
• Series: Studien zu vergleichender Sozialpädagogik und Internationaler Sozialarbeit und Sozialpolitik; Studies in comparative social pedagogies and international social work and social policy; Studien zu vergleichender Sozialpädagogik und Internationaler Sozialarbeit und Sozialpolitik; Studies in comparative social pedagogies and international social work and social policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories