Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities


College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

Applied Social Studies

and

Institute for Independent Research


• Empowerment - Terminological Remarks

• Dimensions of Empowerment

• Social Empowerment - A Different Concept

• Welfare State and Welfare Society - Challenges for a Global Political Shift


TWO QUESTIONS ON POWER

* ruling in situations of and maintaining situations of

inequality

* mastering situations and processes


SOCIAL POLICY OF THE SOCIAL STATE


inequality

Acceptance of inequality and working on change

within the system

Increasing individual capabilities


PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT

* Capability

* Competence

* Mastery


Social state, looking after functional capabilities


Socio-economic security Empowerment

Inclusion Cohesion


Income from employment, Family support, Benefits

Skills training, (Semi-) Public Services

Kinship (networks), Employment

Peer group building, Competition


THE LOSS OF THE SOCIAL -

SOCIETIES OF INDIVIDUALS

• An agreement of free will, between two free/

formally equal parties

• Mutual obligations

• Mutual benefits

•Limited to the obligations expressed in the contract


SOCIAL POLICY OF THE WELL-BEING STATE


inequality

Acceptance of inequality and working on change

within the system

Increasing support mechanisms and

distributive supply policies


Well-being state, as protective, (re-)distributive,supplying institutional system



Inclusion Cohesion


Income from employment, Family support, Benefits

Skills training, (Semi-) Public Services

Kinship (networks), Employment

Peer group building, Competition


Well-fare State, as protective, in some part

(re)distributive system, based on subsidiarity


subject matter of ‘the social’ as ‘the outcome

of constantly changing processes through

which human subjects realise themselves as

interactive human beings.


SOCIAL POLICY OF THE SUSTAINABLEWELL-FARE SOCIETY

* Mastering situations and processes

Rejection of inequality and working on change

of the system

Distributive Policies, Building on Resources and

Enhancing Power of Individuals and Society


Social Empowerment is concerned with the

means and processes and relations necessary

for people to be capable of actively participating

in social relations and actively influencing

the immediate and more distant social and

physical environment.


Social Empowerment is the degree to which the

personal capabilities are and the ability of people

to act is enhanced by social relations.


sustainable

w e l f a r e s o c i e t y



Inclusion Cohesion


Independent resources for social relations

Capabilities for participating in social

relations

Integration into social relations and accessibility

of institutions

Redistribution


Ubuntu

(South African term, meaning “I am because we are”)


1) What kind of knowledge do people have and

how do they obtain it?

2) To which extent are people in control of their

position on the labour market?

3) What is the relation between relevant institutions

and individuals like?

4) How is the relevant public space structured?

5) Do supportive personal networks exist?

Societal Development

Access as dimension of socio-economic

security in terms of empowerment as

personal capability and relationships

Autonomy as dimension of

appropriating and utilising resources in order to be capable of actively participating in social relations and

actively influencing the immediate and

more distant social and physical environment

Systems, institutions, organisations Participation as

dimension of inclusion in terms of

empowerment in terms of empowerment as

civic rights (comprising of civil, political and social

rights

Control as dimension of cohesion in terms of

empowerment as accessibility of the

institutional system

Communities, configurations, groups

Biographical Development

Forum -Societal Development

Politeia -Institutions

Agora -Communities

Universities -The Universally Developed Personality


It is the challenge to reinvent the welfare state as a

strong and responsible entity that allows the

development and maintenance of a welfare society.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities.

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