Regulating Transitions from School to Work
An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
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Dahmen, Stephan
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EnglishAbstract
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work. The study reveals how the critical tensions of activation policies are continually re-interpreted and adapted to local contingencies and describes the various organisational technologies used for creating employable subjects.
Keywords
Youth; Welfare State; Transitions; Human Service Organizations; Institutional Ethnography; Activation; Sociology of Conventions; Work; Education; Educational Research; Sociology of Education; Social Pedagogy; History of Education; Bielefeld University PressISBN
9783839457061, 9783837657067Publication date and place
2021Grantor
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Bielefeld University PressClassification
Philosophy & theory of education
Social work
Philosophy and theory of education
Social work