What is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, and subjectivity and about the social theories that may help us understand these matters. It also seeks to learn from the innovative practices and ideas of a community of social/youth workers in Copenhagen between 1987 and 2003, who developed a pedagogy through creating collectives and mobilizing young people as participants. The theoretical and practical traditions are combined in a unique methodology viewing research as a contentious modeling of prototypical practices. Through this dialogue, it develops an original trans-disciplinary critical theory and practice of collective subjectivity for which the ongoing construction and overcoming of common sense, or ideology, is central. It also points to ways of relating discourse with agency, and fertilizing insights from interactionism and ideology theories in a cultural-historical framework.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780230237605
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111558652
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Work, Family Sociology, Human Biology, Social Psychology
Author
M. Nissen
Publication Name
The Subjectivity of Participation: Articulating Social Work Practice with Youth in Copenhagen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
292 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
592g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
M. Nissen
Series Title
Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences