Das Gesellschaftliche als Aporie – Plädoyer für eine poststrukturalistisch informierte Diskurs-Praktiken-Forschung im Kontext der Transformation Sozialer Arbeit

Abstract

The Social as aporia -Plea for a poststructuralist informed discoursepractice-research in the context of transformation of social workAbstract The present contribution investigates the added value of post-structuralist research approaches in the context of a transformation of social work. Based on a diagnosis which sees an ongoing change of the social state towards readjusting the arrangements of its social-welfare properties, a post-structuralist understanding of theory is used and focused on the question of potential interpretations of discourse-practices-relationships. Four approaches to outline this in more detail are offered, informed by different research and qualification projects. On this backdrop, the authors strongly suggest to refrain from employing a too rigid micro-macrodualism in favour of open research designs, which empirically tie in with the idea of governmentality analytics.