Communicative Legitimacy: Habermas and Democratic Welfare Work

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction: Legitimacy Deficit
	1.1 An Illustration
	1.2 A New Dependency
	1.3 Communicative Challenges
	1.4 Purpose and Outline of the Book
	References
2 A Social Paradigm
	2.1 What Is the Social?
	2.2 Threatening, Empty, Civilizing or Playful?
	2.3 A Risk for Oversocializing?
	2.4 The Social as Regulating Communicative Actions
	2.5 Summary
	References
3 Communicative Legitimacy
	3.1 Intersubjectivity as Mutual Understanding
		3.1.1 Mead’s Intersubjectivity
		3.1.2 Habermas’s Reconstruction to Mutual Understanding
		3.1.3 Habermas’s Clarification of “the Generalized Other“
	3.2 From Everyday Life to Systems
		3.2.1 Social and System Integration
		3.2.2 Everyday Horizons, the Lifeworld
		3.2.3 System
	3.3 Morality and Law
		3.3.1 From Moralizing to Social Policy
		3.3.2 Different Assignments for Morality and Law
		3.3.3 The Legitimacy Gap
		3.3.4 Discourse Theory of Morality4
		3.3.5 Moral Feelings
		3.3.6 Human Rights as Modern, Universal Values
	3.4 Welfare Administrations
		3.4.1 Power
		3.4.2 The Client’s Role
		3.4.3 The Professional’s Role
		3.4.4 The Citizen’s Role
	3.5 Summary
	References
4 Conclusions: Legitimacy Challenges
	4.1 Help and Control
	4.2 Solidarity and Justice
	4.3 Individual Freedom and Collective Will
		4.3.1 Individualization
		4.3.2 Collective Will
	4.4 Recommendations for Welfare Work Professions
		4.4.1 Professional Knowledge Requirements
	References
Index