The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization: With an Appendix on the Political Problem

This chapter examines the complex relationship between ‘punishment’ and ‘welfare.’ It traces the various ways in which penal systems are influenced by, and interact with, broader systems of social welfare and how these linked institutions function as modes of social control and class control. Following a critical review of the historical and comparative literature—and associated questions of data and method—it discusses how penal and welfare policies relate to the social problems they purport to address and to the political and socio-economic structures within which they operate. ‘Penal-welfarist’ and ‘welfarist’ practices are defined and differentiated, some common elements of practices of punishing and assisting are identified, and the fundamentals of ‘the welfare state’ and its recent neoliberal history are explained.

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Socio-political work during the election race

Social work and social education ◽

10.31499/2618-0715.1(6).2021.234136 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 77-85

Author(s):

Svitlana Bondar ◽

Rostyslav Tsimokha

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Policy ◽

Political Parties ◽

Social Workers ◽

Social Services ◽

Political Party ◽

Professional Training ◽

Social Problems ◽

The Political ◽

The Social

The article offers an analysis of political parties: their essence, functions, image formation, the role of the party as a mediator between the government and society, the activities of parties in elections. The features of the social work of political parties are shown, on the example of the political party «Team of Sergei Rudyk. A time of change!». Mechanisms, basic approaches, the most common methods and techniques of social work with people are analyzed. The main theoretical strategies and ideas of social work are presented. Position of the political party «Team of Sergei Rudyk. A time of change!» is that first, the solution of social problems is discussed before it will be accepted and even after it has been adopted. On the party’s website https://www.rudyk.org/news/page/4/, the main projects of social work are illustrated. The publication gives the main recommendations for improving the efficiency of social work: the creation of a mechanism to help youth in self-determination in choosing the profession of social worker, to extend forms and directions of professional training of social workers, to increase expansion in the number of periodicals covering the work of social services, centres, social workers. The formation of social policy occurs based on information received from the collection of statistical data and the conduct of sociological studies. Understanding this information allows you to identify the social tasks. The realization of socially significant goals and social problems solution have been organized through social projects and social programs, which form a significant part of social policy.

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The Political Problem of Industrial Civilization. Elton Mayo

Journal of Political Economy ◽

10.1086/256630 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 55 (6) ◽

pp. 587-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel Bell

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Political Problem ◽

Industrial Civilization ◽

Elton Mayo

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The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.36.7.810-b ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 36 (7) ◽

pp. 810-810

Author(s):

Bailey B. Burritt

Keyword(s):

Social Problems ◽

The Social ◽

Industrial Civilization

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Have You Got Evaluative Reason? Notes for the Deepening of a Philosophical Notion of Education

Revista Electrónica Educare ◽

10.15359/ree.23-1.20 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Facundo Giuliano

Keyword(s):

Reference Point ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Current Control ◽

Market Model ◽

The Political ◽

Modern Education ◽

The Social ◽

Political Problem ◽

The Subject ◽

Definition Of

This essay is based on a question that seeks to find a critical deepening around the investigation of a type of rationality that inhabits modern education and that in our research we have chosen to call evaluative reason. The Deleuzian reflection on the control societies, subsidiary of Foucault’s notion of disciplinary societies, will be a phagocyte reference point to introduce us to the question of this type of rationality that, as we analyze here, also harbors characteristics of the so-called pastoral power in intimate relationship with the contemporary configurations of capitalism. It will be offered a provisional definition of the evaluative reason, in the light of the own analyzes that involve notions such as those of discipline, technologies of government, normalization and biopolitics–which we will rethink here–to advance in a more complex look that relates the ethical, the political, the social, and the economic, with the philosophical-educational, aspects of our approach as a way of approaching the nexus that this rationality sketches between education and the current control societies. In this way, the evaluative reason will open up as an ethical-political problem that is fundamental to address since: a) it has been historically configured in such a way that it crosses and bases practices, technologies and devices; b) with more and more subtle vigilance and increasingly justified sanctions in their “pedagogical” eagerness, it stands between monitoring and calculation that reduce all power of otherness; c) it has a racist dimension whose versatility allows it to move between normalization and normation; d) it helps multiply the market model by setting procedures that place the subject as a self-entrepreneur. Finally, the lines of this analysis hope to become clues to elucidate new forms of resistance and re-existence against the contemporary evaluative compulsion.

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