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From the “elite” rebellion to the ”knowledge” rebellion. What the appearance of family assistantship in social assistance says about the innovation and routine in social work?

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Głębocka D.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

2020

vol. 49

51-81

The subject of my reflection is family assistantship - a new form of family support, implemented in Poland as part of grassroots initiatives of non-governmental organizations and social assistance organizational units [JOPS], in the period preceding the adoption of the Act on family support and foster care system (act) . The appointment of a new professional role, the family assistant, in the social assistance system, or more broadly - in the context of care and assistance - was a real challenge to the current practices supporting the family in Poland: tasks, well-established forms of support, as well as the expectations and interests of helpers' professional environments, administration, local authority and other groups. The purpose of the sociological analysis of the processes of conceptualizing and implementing family assistantship in the social assistance system is to justify the thesis that family assistantship in the years 1990–2011 can be seen as a normative innovation (adaptive strategy) in social assistance and social work, which was a consequence of the revolt against the appearance of goals of social assistance and social work, and a response to the expectation of effective action, directed from various sides to social assistance, including from the professional environment of social workers, more and more active in the educational sphere. Also social policy, since the 1990s interested in the issue of the effectiveness of social assistance and social activity, has become an “external” source of inspiration for the institutional change introduced, which was the work of the (social) family assistant and its organizational model. In the presented text I am looking for answers to two questions: 1) what are the characteristic features of family assistantship as normative innovation? 2) what was the social order destabilisation in the years 1990–2011, incurred by including family assistantship in routine practices in social assistance centres? In preparing this study, I used my own research, observation and professional experience, as well as research carried out by other authors. In addition to the main goal, this article also pursues a minor goal. It is an attempt to synthesize dispersed empirical material on the subject of family assistantship, as well as the results of research relating to the processes of implementing institutional change, in an important context of care and assistance that is underrated in sociological reflection.

Biurokracja emocjonalna, czyli co wniosło do współczesnej pomocy społecznej „wejście” i „wyjście” opieki zastępczej

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Racław M.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

2016

issue 35(4)

93-108

W artykule został a podję ta analiza opieki zastę pczej rozumianej jako innowacja nor-matywna w pomocy społecznej. Wprowadzenie opieki zastępczej do pomocy społecznej utrwaliło perspektywę praw dziecka (w tym prawa do życia w rodzinie) i ich ochrony. Perspektywa ta została zaakceptowana w sfeminizowanym środowisku zawodowym, wrażliwym na krzywdy dziecka i czerpiącym z doświadczeń własnego rodzicielstwa. Doszło do wytworzenia specyficznej emocjonalnej ontologii opartej na cierpieniu dziecka. Ontologia ta, w połączeniu z właściwościami struktur biurokratycznych, przyczyniła się do powstania emocjonalnej biurokracji. Propozycja namysłu nad ontologią emocjonalną w praktykach pomocowych może stanowić punkt wyjścia do dalszych analiz profesji pomocowych i oferowanego przez nie uznania — w rozumieniu Axela Honnetha (2012) — zranionych tożsamości dzieci i ich rodziców na kontinuum działań pomocowych od upodmiotowienia do uprzedmiotowienia beneficjentów wsparcia.

The article contains an analysis of foster care understood as normative innovation in social assistance. The introduction of foster care to social assistance perpetuated the perspective of children's rights (including the right to family life) and their protection. This perspective was accepted in the feminised professional environment sensitive to harm of a child and drawing on the experience of their parenthood. It creates a specific emotional ontology based on the suffering child. This ontology combined with the properties of bureaucratic structures contributed to establishment of the emotional bureaucracy. The offer of reflection on the emotional ontology in support practices can provide a starting point for further analysis of helping professions and for recognition the wounded identities on the continuum of empowerment — objectification.

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From the “elite” rebellion to the ”knowledge” rebellion. What the appearance of family assistantship in social assistance says about the innovation and routine in social work?

Biurokracja emocjonalna, czyli co wniosło do współczesnej pomocy społecznej „wejście” i „wyjście” opieki zastępczej