Social Welfare: Care Planning and the Politics of Trust - Softcover

Gilbert, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838320727 ISBN 13: 9783838320724

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This book describes a study of power and power relations produced within the processes that surround care planning. It sets out to provide evidence for the proposition that welfare professionals and the organisations in which they are embedded set out to manufacture trust. This trust has a particular quality, as it is impersonal and therefore does not require knowledge of any individual involved. At the same time, trust serves as a commodity within the competitive environment of welfare and it is contested ? hence the politics of trust. Using a framework developed from the work of Michel Foucault on governmentality the study defines trust as the the management of expectations. It describes the local relations of power where a discourse of trust that is articulated by professionals within organisations. The existence of differing discursive structures between organisations is linked with Foucault?s description of the ?orders of discourse? to produce an organisational typology of three broad forms into which the organisations involved in the study are be placed. These are described as New Wave, Pragmatists and the Old Radical.

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About the Author

Tony Gilbert PhD is Deputy Head of the School of Applied Psycho Social Sciences at the University of Plymouth UK. He has worked in health and social care services and has research interests in Citizenship, Trust and Governmentality with particular reference to people with intellectual disability. Current projects focus on safeguarding adults.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3838320727
• ISBN 13: 9783838320724
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 196