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Towards More Democracy in Social Services : Models of Culture and Welfare / ed. by Gaby Flösser, Hans-Uwe Otto.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence : ISCA ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110143911
  • 9783110875508
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361 21
LOC classification:
  • HV31.T59 1998eb .T59 1998
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards More Democracy in Social Services: Models and Culture of Welfare -- Part I. The Welfare Approach -- The End of Progressivism: Paradigmatic Shifts and Social Welfare -- Consumers, Citizens and Coproducers – A Pluralistic Perspective on Democracy in Social Services -- Social Service Delivery: The More Demand, the More Democracy? -- Civil Society and the Welfare State -- Does Welfare Lead to Dependency? Effectiveness and Undesirable Side-Effects of Welfare Institutions -- Social Rights, Power and the Democratization of Social Services -- The Scandinavian Social Service Model -- Welfare, Democracy and Social Work -- Democratization: The Recovery of the Political in Social Work(?) -- Part II. The Organizational Approach -- The Organizational Construction of Social Citizenship -- Democratization by Modernization? The Future Development of Social Service Organization -- Personal Social Services: Changing Organizational Forms and Service User Participation. A British Perspective on the Democratization Debate -- Client Demands and Professional Responsibility in Democratic Welfare Organizations -- Old Democracy – New Quality? Transformation of Social Services in East Germany and Finland. The Case of Child Daycare -- Cooperative Relations Within Youth Assistance – A Step Towards Democratization of Social Services? -- Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Services -- Modernizing the Youth Welfare System: The Forgotten Perspective of the Clients -- Does Democratic Rationality Extend to Social Services? Legitimation Problems in Professional Action -- Empowerment – A Challenge for Professionalization in Social Work -- Privatization and Professionalization: Challenges to Social Service Delivery in the U.S.A. -- Feminist Care Work Projects in Germany: Between Self-Help and Professional Identity -- Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services: Community Building as a Template for Recreating the Welfare State -- Part III. The Quality Approach -- Improving the Quality of Social Services: New Opportunities for Participation? -- Quality-Enhancement in the Service Society: Perspectives for Social Work -- Reform and Restructuring of Social Services in the United States: Evaluating Collaborative Service Models -- Client Participation as an Instrument of Quality Assurance in Social Work: The Potential for Democratization in the ‘New’ Quality Consciousness -- Quality Assurance of Voluntary Welfare Associations: A Question of Morals, Law, Contract or Participation? -- Self-Evaluation – The Ultimate Boot-Strap Approach? -- Contributors
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i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards More Democracy in Social Services: Models and Culture of Welfare -- Part I. The Welfare Approach -- The End of Progressivism: Paradigmatic Shifts and Social Welfare -- Consumers, Citizens and Coproducers – A Pluralistic Perspective on Democracy in Social Services -- Social Service Delivery: The More Demand, the More Democracy? -- Civil Society and the Welfare State -- Does Welfare Lead to Dependency? Effectiveness and Undesirable Side-Effects of Welfare Institutions -- Social Rights, Power and the Democratization of Social Services -- The Scandinavian Social Service Model -- Welfare, Democracy and Social Work -- Democratization: The Recovery of the Political in Social Work(?) -- Part II. The Organizational Approach -- The Organizational Construction of Social Citizenship -- Democratization by Modernization? The Future Development of Social Service Organization -- Personal Social Services: Changing Organizational Forms and Service User Participation. A British Perspective on the Democratization Debate -- Client Demands and Professional Responsibility in Democratic Welfare Organizations -- Old Democracy – New Quality? Transformation of Social Services in East Germany and Finland. The Case of Child Daycare -- Cooperative Relations Within Youth Assistance – A Step Towards Democratization of Social Services? -- Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Services -- Modernizing the Youth Welfare System: The Forgotten Perspective of the Clients -- Does Democratic Rationality Extend to Social Services? Legitimation Problems in Professional Action -- Empowerment – A Challenge for Professionalization in Social Work -- Privatization and Professionalization: Challenges to Social Service Delivery in the U.S.A. -- Feminist Care Work Projects in Germany: Between Self-Help and Professional Identity -- Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services: Community Building as a Template for Recreating the Welfare State -- Part III. The Quality Approach -- Improving the Quality of Social Services: New Opportunities for Participation? -- Quality-Enhancement in the Service Society: Perspectives for Social Work -- Reform and Restructuring of Social Services in the United States: Evaluating Collaborative Service Models -- Client Participation as an Instrument of Quality Assurance in Social Work: The Potential for Democratization in the ‘New’ Quality Consciousness -- Quality Assurance of Voluntary Welfare Associations: A Question of Morals, Law, Contract or Participation? -- Self-Evaluation – The Ultimate Boot-Strap Approach? -- Contributors

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