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Introduction / Hans-Uwe Otto and Holger Ziegler -- Part 1: Democracy and the Social -- Theoretical Foundations -- The Capability Approach and deliberative democracy / Robert Salais -- Rationality and freedom? Sen's CA and critical policy evaluation / Reńé Lehweß-Litzmann -- Capability and Freedom: Sen Re-examined / Benedikt Reusch -- Participation without Welfare? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, feminism and the Capabilities Approach / Zoë Clark -- Capabilities and the Empirical Foundations of Critical Pragmatism / Bénédicte Zimmermann -- Part 2: Theorising Social Policy -- A Capabilities Perspective -- The Capability Perspective: Basic Features and their Relevance for Social Policy / Nicolai Suppa -- Autonomy versus constraints to market economy: What does social policy supply? / Albert Scherr -- External Capabilities and the Limits to Social Policy / William A. Jackson -- Empowerment and the Capabilities Approach in Public Health -- Some Remarks from the perspective of a scientific evaluation research / Elias Sahrai and Uwe H. Bittlingmayer -- On the relationship between the analysis of the welfare state and normative categories / Norbert Wohlfahrt -- Contributive Justice, Class Divisions and the Capabilities Approach / Andrew Sayer -- Part 3: Assessing Social Policy -- What the Capabilities Approach may provide -- What is the value added of the Capability Approach for evaluating social and labour market policy? / Alexander Goerne -- Capabilities as an assessment tool for social policies -- The example of the effects of non-formal training measures in Spain / Joan Miquel Verd and Marti López-Andreu -- Towards a more critical appraisal of social policies -- The contribution of the capability approach.

The volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people's freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The contributions of this volume analyze what social institutions – in particular in the field of education and welfare – may provide in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people

"The volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people's freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The contributions analyze what social institutions - in particular in the field of education and welfare - may provide in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people. The capabilities approach to social justice does not primarily outline a transcendental philosophical theory of justice but rather a perspective which opens up a conceptual foundation for empirical social research in real life situations. Focusing on the freedoms to achieve actual livings that individuals can have reason to value, the capabilities approach promises to be a fruitful perspective for developing and justifying evaluative metrics for assessing welfare and educational policies. While the potentials and limits of the capabilities approach have been intensively discussed on general and conceptual levels, the role of organizations and institutions for enhancing capabilities is still a blind spot. As inequalities of capabilities are not merely macro-structural phenomena but also located in different institutional forms at various scales, this volume aims at analyzing the complex and often ambivalent role of institutions and policies in promoting or impeding the life prospects of individuals."--Publisher's website.

Capabilities Approach The authors assess the potentials and pitfalls of the Capabilities Approach to issues of education and welfare. Renowned philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, economists and educational scientists explore the conceptual and practical implications of this approach for delivering socially just policies. The volume analyses the potentials and pitfalls of the Capabilities Approach (CA) which was initially developed by the Indian economist Amartya Sen and the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum. CA is considered as a philosophical approach to social justice, a scientific approach to research welfare production and eventually as a potentially new practically adoptable fundament for educational and social service delivery. CA is one of the currently most influential attempts to reconcile the competing demands which are associated with the fundamental conceptions of equality, recognition and liberty and advocates an egalitarian, political conception of social justice which is concerned with the cultivation, maximization and just distribution of the (real) freedom of individuals. Renowned philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, economists and educational scientists investigate the complex relation of education and welfare against the background of major economic, political and cultural transformations within and across European societies.

Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Zusammenhang von Gesundheit junger Menschen und Sozialer Arbeit. Die Idee besteht in der Formulierung einer gesundheitsbezogenen Sozialen Arbeit. Die Arbeit von Frau Rademaker widmet sich dem Zusammenhang von Gesundheit junger Menschen und Sozialer Arbeit. Ihre Idee besteht in der Formulierung einer gesundheitsbezogenen Sozialen Arbeit, womit sie eine biopsychosoziale Gesundheitsförderung im Rahmen der Sozialen Arbeit konturiert, in der Gesundheit als ein Thema alltäglicher Lebensführung bzw. als Thema von Ungleichheit in der alltäglichen Lebensführung junger Menschen in den Blick genommen wird.

Die 'neue Unterschicht' ist entdeckt und die Erziehung dieser prekarisierten Gesellschaftsmitglieder wird gefordert. FachexpertInnen aus Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialpädagogik gehen in diesem Band der Frage nach, wie angemessen eine solche Diagnose der 'neuen Unterschicht' und der damit verbundene Therapievorschlag einer Erziehung zur Armut ist: Wie wird hier soziale Ungleichheit in einer veränderten Form zum Gegenstand? Welche Herausforderungen sind damit für die Soziale Arbeit verbunden? Hält die Diagnose einer 'neuen Unterschicht' einer empirischen Überprüfung stand? In welcher Weise werden hier bestimmte Bevölkerungsgruppen zum Zielpunkt politischer Strategien? Die Beantwortung dieser Fragen macht das Spannungsverhältnis struktureller, kultureller und moralischer Erklärungsversuche mit Blick auf eine fachliche und politische Verortung Sozialer Arbeit analysierbar.

This volume answers fundamental questions about how human development is fostered: How to overcome unjust societies with better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalized in countries where social welfare is put into question?

How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and systematic strategies for human development policies at the local, national and international level. International contributors innovatively combine the hitherto unpaired perspectives of the capability approach and the tradition of critical social policy with empirical examples using case studies from South-Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America.

Cover -- Closing the Capabilities Gap. Renegotiating social justice for the young -- Content -- Introduction: Closing the Capability Gap and Renewing Social Criticism (Ortrud Leßmann, Hans-Uwe Otto & Holger Ziegler) -- Part I - Renegotiating Social Justice -- From Social Citizenship to Social Capability in an Enlarged Economic Europe (Robert Salais) -- The Capability Approach: A Sufficient Foundation for Welfare Reform? (Hartley Dean) -- Thinking in a Capability Language (René Büttner) -- Measuring the Extension of Capability Sets (Wulf Gaertner) -- Human Autonomy and Development Effectiveness: Introducing a People-Centred Framework for Project Assessment (Mirtha R. Muñiz Castillo) -- Preparing Young People for Eudaimonia: Moving Capabilities across Generations (John Cameron) -- Capabilities - From a Relationist Viewpoint (Heinrich W. Schäfer) -- Part II - Capability Gaps of the Young -- Dynamic Capabilities - A Capability Approach to Life Courses and the Case of Young Adults (Peter Bartelheimer, René Büttner & Tanja Schmidt) -- Children's Autonomy, Education and Capabilities (Jérôme Ballet, Mario Biggeri & Flavio Comim) -- Early Childhood, Agency and Capability Deprivation - A Quantitative Analysis Using German Socio-Economic Panel Data (Jürgen Volkert & Kirsten Wüst) -- Symbolic Capital and the Capability Gap (Michael Watts) -- A Capability Approach Fit for Children (Iris Sadlowski) -- Social Class, Socialization and Capabilities in a Modern Welfare State: Results from the Iceland Longitudinal Study (Matthias Grundmann, Anneka trin Steinhoff & Wolfgang Edelstein) -- From Inequality to Anomie - And Inequality Revisited by Use of CA (Niels Rosendal Jensen) -- Approaching Capabilities with Children in Care - An international Project to Identify Values of Childrenand Young People in Care (Gunter Graf, Oscar Germes-Castro & Bernhard Babic)

Der Band diskutiert Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines neuen Ansatzes für die Soziale Arbeit, die evidenzbasierte Praxis .Eine Neuausrichtung Sozialer Arbeit auf der Basis wissenschaftlich nachweisbarer Wirksamkeitskriterien, wie sie mit dem Modell einer evidenzbasierten Praxis einhergeht, gewinnt auch in der Bundesrepublik zunehmend an Bedeutung. International führende ExpertInnen erörtern in diesem Band die Grundlagen dieses Paradigmenwechsels und führen systematisch in die fachlich heftig umstrittene Debatte ein.

The quest to create an evidence-based Social Work practice is emerging strongly in different fields of Social Work and social policy. In this volume internationally renowned proponents and opponents of this approach deliver profound analyses of the meaning and implications of an evidence based perspective which clearly challenges the nature of the knowledge base of the established Social Work practice and apparently reevaluates and reshapes the character of welfare professionalism. Aus dem Inhalt: What Knowledge? Evidence-based Practice, Profession and Users Organising, Measuring and Implementing Evidence Towards an Evidence-based Professionalism