Power of the Stranger
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A01=Gert J.F. Leene
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analysis
Author_Gert J.F. Leene
Author_Theo N.M. Schuyt
Behavioural Alternatives
British Journal Of Social Work
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Category=JKS
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community engagement strategies
Community Work
Den Bergs
distance
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Ford Motor Company
gaudens
Helper Syndrome
Helper Therapy Principle
Human Suffering
intervention
Intolerable Uncertainty
legitimacy in social practice
Luhmann's Analysis
Luhmann’s Analysis
Occupational Welfare
Philanthropy Model
philanthropy research
Poverty Management
Professional Interventionists
Promote Group Formation
reflective practice in social intervention
Residual Social Policy
Simmel's Analysis
simmels
Simmel’s Analysis
social
Social Intervention
Social Origins Theory
social work theory
state
tertius
Tertius Gaudens
triadic intervention model
Van Den Bergs
Van Stolk
Vice Versa
welfare
welfare state transformation
Western European Welfare State
work
Product details
- ISBN 9780754670629
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar with the pitfalls of social intervention. Utilizing research on social intervention over the past twenty-five years, this book presents a new theoretical framework for a number of basic principles which are paramount in social intervention at the individual level, at group level and at societal level. Taking Simmel's ideas of the stranger or third element as inspiration, the authors argue the importance of reflection on the role and significance of this third element - the advisor, the consultant, the social worker, or the middle-manager - when analyzing and improving the methods used in social intervention. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, practitioners, students and policymakers who are interested social intervention.
Gert J.F. Leene is a former lecturer in Sociology of Social Work at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Theo N.M. Schuyt is Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and member of the editorial board of the Belgium/Dutch Journal "Sociale Interventie" (Social Intervention).
