Quelques effets de l'idée de proximité sur la conduite et le devenir du travail social
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: The various attempts to adapt social policies to the recent transformations of society, in particular in relation to the phenomenon categorized as exclusion, led to the emergence of specific welfare relations known in French as relations de proximite. In order to specify this evolution, it seemed important to inquire about the daily practise of social workers and to analyze the pragmatic conditions of the building of those new forms of encounter with excluded. The empirical investigation shows the work done to get closer to the beneficiares of help, what is allowed by doing this and the new tensions entailed. These tensions are du in particular to the necessity of composing between various modes of engagement that should allow at the same time the recognition of the singularity of the lived situation and the equal treatment of different situations according to the principle of public service. By alleviating somewhat the call for a critical stance, it was possible to give a sociological description of what is at stake in the proximity relations. At the end of the article, it is then possible to provide some elements of a new critic able to take into account the importance of those new forms of social work and to analyse their limits and negative aspects.
Source: HAL
DOI: 10.5169/seals-814974
Language: French
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W777410855