RISTO ERÄSAARI UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY A WORKING PAPER FOR THE IAEVG CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, JUNE DYNAMIC CONFRONTATIONS WITH CONNECTIONS AND JUSTIFICATIONS? THOUGHTS ON THE NEW WELFARE STATE IMAGINARY

Black box: concept of culture to live together in the world schemata or a script social representation direct representation the symbol of all perception partial connections distributed representations assumptive worlds dynamic confrontation with world

The arena: societal spheres of action structural context activities of human agents reflexive agents impartial spectator self-tutored manifestation of the individual’s moral faculties Sympathy social differentiation division to different spheres of action (economy, law, politics, science, art, religion, education) the values and principles which regulate or guide any entity or predicament involved in their context resources and potentials of “common good” which are utilized within these instances but should also be taken into account beyond these instances

The field decisions: society of the presences decisions have to be made and coordination has to be constructed second order coordination new type or organizations and new forms of knowledge have been created on the spot of these interfaces differentiated values spheres, social circles and action fields presence of society individualist-rationalist thinkers: aggregation of preferences collectivist-interpretativist thinkers: common frameworks

Consolidation process: polyphonic organizations tastes, audiences, aesthetics and attitudes towards trading zones and generalized commercialization of guidance and services interaction, organization and society: society is a communicative whole structured by subsystems, interaction activates these through simultaneous presences of people organizations operate between society and interaction: the peculiarity of organization lies in the ability to stabilize forms of behavior through making decisions at the level of communication

New knowledge emergence: knowing and believing negotiated values, virtual cultures, media representations, effects of evaluation and comparison emphasis on epistemic and interpretative approach between social analysis and social policy cultural and epistemic standard of Enlightenment thinking epistemic level of the meta-tasks new thinking about reason, meaning, identity, narrative orientation and the life world attacks on several fronts shift to the collective feared significance of shifting from substantive to active participles, from knowledge and belief to knowing and believing “one of practical convenience and varies every moment” (T.S.Elliot)

Politics of representation: knowledge management need for management representational status socio-political frame implicit forms of knowledge first one conceived as the achievement of a world or a language of emergences second implication is the preoccupation with internal problematique which means the responding to broader conditions of policy processes

Justification and critical moments justification of action industrial wolrd civic world domestic world world of inspiration world of renown

Risto Eräsaari University of Helsinki Department of Social Policy P.O. Box 18 FIN Helsinki University