Stephan Dahmen
Author
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do grassroot-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work....
2) Practicing the Family: The Doing and Making of Family In, With and Through Social Work and Education
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
How »family« is construed on a material and discursive level has gained increasing interest among educational and social work professionals. The contributors to this volume address that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of »doing family« by its heterogeneous members. The contributions build a transdisciplinary bridge between research on family life on the one hand and research on the formatting of family in welfare state contexts...