Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities

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Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Empowerment - Terminological Remarks Dimensions of Empowerment Social Empowerment - A Different Concept Welfare State and Welfare Society - Challenges for a Global Political Shift

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities TWO QUESTIONS ON POWER * ruling in situations of and maintaining situations of inequality * mastering situations and processes

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities SOCIAL POLICY OF THE SOCIAL STATE * ruling in situations of and maintaining situations of inequality Acceptance of inequality and working on change within the system Increasing individual capabilities

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT * Capability * Competence * Mastery

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Social state, looking after functional capabilities

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Socio-economic securityEmpowerment InclusionCohesion

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Income from employment, Family support, Benefits Skills training, (Semi-) Public Services Kinship (networks), Employment Peer group building, Competition

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities THE LOSS OF THE SOCIAL - SOCIETIES OF INDIVIDUALS An agreement of free will, between two free/ formally equal parties Mutual obligations Mutual benefits Limited to the obligations expressed in the contract

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities SOCIAL POLICY OF THE WELL-BEING STATE * ruling in situations of and maintaining situations of inequality Acceptance of inequality and working on change within the system Increasing support mechanisms and distributive supply policies

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Well-being state, as protective, (re-)distributive, supplying institutional system

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Socio-economic securityEmpowerment InclusionCohesion

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Income from employment, Family support, Benefits Skills training, (Semi-) Public Services Kinship (networks), Employment Peer group building, Competition

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Well-fare State, as protective, in some part (re)distributive system, based on subsidiarity

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities

subject matter of ‘the social’ as ‘the outcome of constantly changing processes through which human subjects realise themselves as interactive human beings.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities SOCIAL POLICY OF THE SUSTAINABLE WELL-FARE SOCIETY * Mastering situations and processes Rejection of inequality and working on change of the system Distributive Policies, Building on Resources and Enhancing Power of Individuals and Society

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Social Empowerment is concerned with the means and processes and relations necessary for people to be capable of actively participating in social relations and actively influencing the immediate and more distant social and physical environment.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Social Empowerment is the degree to which the personal capabilities are and the ability of people to act is enhanced by social relations.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities sustainable w e l f a r e s o c i e t y

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Socio-economic securityEmpowerment InclusionCohesion

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Independent resources for social relations Capabilities for participating in social relations Integration into social relations and accessibility of institutions Redistribution

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Ubuntu (South African term, meaning “I am because we are”)

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities 1)What kind of knowledge do people have and how do they obtain it? 2)To which extent are people in control of their position on the labour market? 3)What is the relation between relevant institutions and individuals like? 4)How is the relevant public space structured? 5)Do supportive personal networks exist?

Forum - Societal Development Politeia - Institutions Agora - Communities Universities - The Universally Developed Personality

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities It is the challenge to reinvent the welfare state as a strong and responsible entity that allows the development and maintenance of a welfare society.

Peter Herrmann: Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities