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Der Text widmet sich im Anschluss an die Debatten um Alltagsgeschichte den Möglichkeiten, eine Geschichte der wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Transformation "von unten" mit Blick auf den beruflichen Alltag in der Sozialen Arbeit und dessen Akteur_innen zu schreiben. Als theoretisch zentral gilt dabei die Kategorie des Eigensinns. Anhand einer biographischen Fallgeschichte wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich "große" gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in einer exemplarischen Lebens- und Berufspraxis niederschlagen und dort eigensinnig verarbeitet werden.

Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek -- 999/Hist.pol.2209(6

Ernst BOESCH is one of the outstanding psychologists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. His efforts since the 1950s to develop a "symbolic theory of action" led him to a theory of original cultural psychology. He developed this theory based on his research experiences in Thailand and then verified it based on new questions and objects. In this article I show that BOESCH's years in a culturally foreign country were the decisive impetus for theoretical and methodological innovations. Personal encounters and expansive learning experiences which allowed BOESCH to speak Thai and become acquainted with a previously completely unfamiliar cultural way of life, were the prerequisites for BOESCH's scientific yields and innovations. This existential basis led him to a relational hermeneutics in empirical research, conceptualization and theory-building, in which a sharp distinction between research subject and object is noticeably relaxed. Some further principles and remaining strengths, but also weaknesses and methodological deficits of this action-theoretical cultural psychology will be discussed.