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| Title: | Person-Oriented Services & Social Servces Providers in Comparative & European Perspective
: Current Debates on Changes by Liberalisation from the Perspective of a Theory of Modernisation |
| Author: | Peter Herrman |
| ISBN: | 160021004X : 9781600210044 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 161 |
| Weight: | .534 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - April 2006 |
| List Price: | 45.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social welfare & social services: EUROPE |
The work presented here has the ambitious objective to analyse a highly topical issue not in the usual terms of finding an immediate answer to pressing questions of political urgency, but to find such answers notwithstanding the abstract approach of a fundamental reinterpretation of the issue in question. The topical side of the question is focussing on services of general interest, a matter that is closely linked to the European strategy of market liberalisation and to what is called the European Social Model. In this sense, the question of services of general interest, and with this the question of social services as specific form of services of general interest is path-dependent, linked to the orientation of European integration as establishing a single market, based on the four fundamental freedoms, namely the: free movement of capital; free movement of goods; freedom of movement for workers and freedom of establishment and provision of services and mutual recognition of diplomas.
Part A: Modernisation, Hypermodernisation or Postmodernisation – a theoretical framework for the analysis of current developments in European Social Policy – Introduction; Methodological Perspective; Europeanisation as Modernising Alteration; Modernisation - Appropriation or Control in the Development of Citizenship; Modernisation and Social Policy: on the Way to Social Quality; Citizenship Between Community and State; Community and Society Revisited. Part B: Person oriented services and social service providers in comparative and European perspective» – current debates on changes by liberalisation; The European Social Model: Basic Understanding; Social Services as Elements of the European Social Model; General Interest – Between Law, Politics and Trust; The Political Approach: General Interest in the Perspective of State Philosophy and Political Science. Part C: Social Services and Social Professions – Carriers of Traditional Society or Promoters of Sound Modernisation – Conclusions and Outlook -- General Interest and Social Services: A Working Definition; The Empirical Challenge; Search for Indicators; Outlining an Empirical Approach; Codicil; Epilogue. Index.
