scholarly journals ”Jeg kan godt sige ”innovativ” – jeg siger det tit”. Begrænser innovationsdiskursen innovation i praksis?

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Wegener
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Parallel Processes ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Constraints

Innovationsbegrebet er centralt i debatten om fremtidens velfærdssamfund, og innovation fremstår nu som et imperativ for både samfund og arbejdspladser. Men hvad betyder innovation i en offentlig kontekst egentlig, og hvilken betydning har innovationsimperativet for aktører i deres daglige praksis på offentlige arbejdspladser? Fra et empirisk perspektiv udfolder artiklen en begrebsanalyse af innovation og viser, hvordan innovationsbegrebets betydninger skabes gennem lokale aktørers diskurser. Fra et demokratiseringsperspektiv argumenteres efterfølgende for, at lokale aktørers perspektiver på innovation skal ses som en konstruktiv ressource, der kan bidrage til bæredygtig udvikling i praksis. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Charlotte Wegener: Does Innovation Discourse Restrict Innovation? The elder care sector in Denmark is one of the main welfare state areas in which innovation is on the agenda. Economic constraints, demographic changes including more elderly and reduced budgets are the arguments advanced by politicians and public opinions leaders for adopting a radically new way of thinking. If this does not happen, they argue, quality and ethics – and consequently citizens and staff – will suffer unnecessarily. The solution promulgated is innovation. This article investigates the ways in which the innovation discourse unfolds on the practice-based level – among students and staff in the elder care sector and at the social and health care college, which trains care workers. It examines the discourses among employees, managers and students who are supposed to be innovative and take part in implementation of innovative changes within their organization or in cross-organizational collaboration in social and health care and education. It asks whether innovation discourse facilitates innovation. The article concludes that the actors are engaged in the concept of innovation; however, there is a tendency to invest this engagement into producing more discourse. Meanwhile changes in the social sector proceed in parallel processes with no interaction with, or even in opposition to the innovation discourse. Key words: Public innovation, discourse, social actors, the social and health care sector.

Le vie cristiane della sicurezza sociale. I cattolici italiani e il welfare state

2013 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Author(s):  
Edoardo Bressan
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Social State ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

In Italy, from the 1930s until the end of the century, the relationship between the Catholic world and the development of the Social state becomes a very relevant theme. Social thought and Catholic historiography issues witness a European civilisation crisis, by highlighting problems of poverty and historical forms of assistance. Furthermore, by following the 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical Quadragesimo anno these issues interacted with fascist corporativism. After 1945, other key experiences arose, as the discussion on social security as the conclusion of the whole public assistance debate shown. These themes are reported in the Bologna social week works in 1949 and in Fanfani's and La Pira's positions, which present several correspondences with British and French worlds, such as Christian socialism, Reinhold Niebuhr's thought and Maritain's remarks. The 1948 Republican Constitution adopts the Welfare State model assumptions, and it is in those very years that the problem of a system based on a universal outlook arose. Afterwards, governments of coalition led by centre and left-wing parties fostered social security through welfare and health reforms until the '80s. While this model falls into crisis, and new social actors begin to be involved in a context of subsidiarity.

Ageing/body/sex/work – Migrant women’s narratives of intimacy and ageing in commercial sex and elder care work

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072094459
Author(s):  
Lena Näre ◽  
Anastasia Diatlova
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ageing Body

This article analyses how sex and elder-care workers negotiate intimacy and ageing in their work. We find surprising similarities between sex and care work that derive from the ways in which Eastern European migrant women are sexualised in the sites of our studies: Italy and Finland. The bodywork and intimate labour conducted by the women is defined in part by the social status of their work in society, in part by the ageing bodies upon whom the work is done, and in part by the ways in which the bodies of the workers are gendered, sexualised and racialised. The article draws on interview and participant observation data collected during two ethnographic research projects with female migrants from post-socialist countries working as eldercare workers in Italy and in sex workers in Finland.

The Crisis of the International Capitalist Order and its Implications for the Welfare State

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

This article analyzes the current crisis of the international capitalist order and its consequences for the welfare state policies of developed and underdeveloped capitalist countries. Special emphasis is given to the impact of the crisis on state health care policies in those countries. The first part discusses the response of capital and labor to the crisis, with special focus on capital's political and ideological interventions in the areas of production, consumption, and legitimation; and their realization as health care policies. The second part analyzes the major capitalist responses to the crisis—the “market” and the “social contract” strategies—and their consequences for health care policy. The last part critically evaluates the call for a new economic order and its limitations.

scholarly journals Why education and health are more different than alike

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (91) ◽  
pp. 477-491
Author(s):  
Claudio de Moura Castro ◽  
Philip Musgrove
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Sectors

Abstract Education and health – or more precisely, schooling and health care – are often lumped together as the major components of something called “the social sector”. There are some important similarities, but they are outweighed by greater and more significant differences. Most of these differences are intrinsic to knowledge and learning or to disease and dealing with it. Other distinctions arise from how society organizes and pays for schooling and medical care. The differences matter for costs, day-to-day management, and reform efforts in each sector. Treating the two sectors as highly comparable is both sloppy thinking and conducive to bad public policy.

Digital transformation of care for older people

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-541
Author(s):  
Oscar Zanutto
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care For Older People

We are facing the 2050 aging wave that is calling us to prepare several strands of interventions to be ready on time. There is a need to foster the digital transformation of the care sector by the improvement of the digital literacy among older people, carers and care workers also using codesign approaches for the ICT usability and adoption in the social and health care domains. Moreover we need to switch from a reactive care model based on chronicity towards the adoption of a new one where citizens will be the co-maker of their own health.

scholarly journals Villkorat partnerskap: Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Dahlstedt ◽  
Aleksandra Ålund ◽  
Anna Ålund
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Volunteer Organizations ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

Artikeln belyser samverkan mellan sammanslutningar bildade på etnisk grund och folkbildningens studieförbund i Sverige. Engagemang för social inkludering har fått en ökad betydelse för ”invandrarföreningar”. Samtidigt är dessa föreningar inte sällan utsatta för stigmatisering och försatta i en underordnad position. Med utgångspunkt i fältarbete i det mångetniska Stockholm pekar författarna på hur ”invandrarföreningar” har blivit till institutionaliserade samverkansaktörer i nya former av partnerskap (mellan till exempel stat och kommun, frivilligorganisationer och näringsliv) där de har tagit över en rad servicefunktioner i och med välfärdsstatens pågående omvandling. Exemplet samverkan kring folkbildning visar på ett starkt ojämlikt partnerskap mellan ”invandrarföreningar” och studieförbund. Några av de omständigheter som lyfts fram som problematiska är brist på dialog, kulturellt definierade hierarkier mellan ”svenskar” och ”invandrare” och en allt starkare anpassning i förhållande till marknadens krav och förväntningar. Sökord: Folkbildning, invandrarföreningar, partnerskap, inkludering, exkludering. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Magnus Dahlstedt, Aleksandra Ålund, and Anna Ålund: Conditional Partnership: Democracy and Social Inclusion in Relations Between Institutions of Adult Education and Immigrant Associations The authors discuss the cooperation between immigrant associations and public institutions for adult education in Sweden. They emphasize the growing importance of activism for social inclusion among immigrant associations and the stigmatization and subordinate position of these same organizations. Based on empirical case studies from metropolitan Stockholm, the authors argue that these associations have become more or less institutionalized in terms of new partnerships (between state, municipality and volunteer organizations) and have taken over a number of service functions from the retreating welfare state. The authors argue that the partnership in the area of adult education is unequal. They examine problems of this partnership both in terms of lack of dialogue and culturally defi ned hierarchy and in terms of adjustment to market exigency. They do this on the backdrop of the changing institutional system of adult education and its role in the social inclusion of migrants. Key words: Adult education, immigrant organisations, partnership, inclusion, exclusion.

scholarly journals Negarbingi kiti

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Tone Horntvedt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Drug Addict ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Emergency Medical Technicians ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Care Workers

Šiame pranešime autorius aptaria, kaip diskurso sistemos gali kurti ir deformuoti sąveiką tarp profesionalų ir jų klientų. Diskusija grindžiama epizodu, veiksmo vieta – parkas Norvegijoje 2007 metų vasarą, ir tuo metu aptariamos tokios temos:1. Apibrėžimų galia diskursuose. Ar galima teigti, kad apibrėžimai gali dominuoti ir kad jais Santraukaremiantis yra projektuojamas ir keičiamas realybės suvokimas?2. Poreikis projektuoti etnocentriškumo sindromą;3. Poreikis įtraukti į diskusiją tiek mūsų suvokimą, tiek marginalijų derinių realybę.The unworthy othersTone Horntvedt SummaryThis paper is based on an incident which took place this August in a park in Oslo.The incident was as follows; a severely beaten Somali man was left by the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), because they thought he was a drug addict. What made this incident different from other episodes was that it took place on a summer afternoon and he was surrounded by his wife, friends and health care workers who all told the EMTs that he was not a drug addict. In this paper I will discus whether what happened here was one version of meetings between representatives of the Norwegian welfare system and its users they see as marginalized. I will look into: 1. The power of definitions in discourses. Is it possible that these definitions can be so dominant that they project and twist the perception of reality? 2. The possible need to project, embodied in the Ethnocentric Syndrome; 3. Can we put under discussion both our perceptions and the reality of marginalized groups?Key words: perception, marginalization, ethnocentric syndrome, professional discourses

Negotiating the Social Family: Migrant Live-in Elder Care-workers in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Lin ◽  
Danièle Bélanger
Keyword(s):  
Elder Care ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
New Family ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract In response to difficulties faced by families in caring for the aged, the government of Taiwan launched a foreign live-in caregiver programme in 1992. This paper draws upon literature on family, domestic work and motives for caregiving to examine how the long-term co-residence of migrant live-in elder care-workers reconfigures Taiwanese families. Our analysis, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the summer of 2009 with 20 Vietnamese migrant live-in care-workers, uses the concept of ‘social family’ to document the close emotional and quasi-familial relationships between foreign care-workers and members of Taiwanese families. Narratives shed light on the dynamics of these relationships and show the limitations of the concept. The inherent asymmetrical employer-employee power relationship remains, while workers constantly negotiate contradictory feelings and positions in the intimate sphere of the employers’ private homes. This paper emphasizes the mutual dependency that migrants experience as both workers and members of a new family. Rather than being seen as cheap, disposable labour, migrants become indispensable to the families. It is this dependency and intimacy that make them part of the family, but also continues to make them vulnerable to abuse.

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