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Peter Fuchs - Systemtheoretical views on social work
« on: February 28, 2009, 02:41:29 PM »

The systems theory of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann is one possible tool to analyse social work - in this case as a (functional) system - but it can as well be used to explain processes in social work.

Prof. Dr. Peter Fuchs, a scholar of Luhmann, is one of the leading theorists in this field and he also strives for a further development of the theory. In some of his many works he refers (explicitly or implicitly) to social work or related topics, as for instance consultance.

We are happy to be able to provide you some of his works for download. There is one English text; all other texts are in German.

Note: All downloads are based on online-publications and therefore manuscripts, that can differ from printing versions. For this reason, they are not quotable in a scientific work.

Further manuscripts of Peter Fuchs regarding education, psyche etc. at http://www.fen.ch/index_system.html
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Re: Peter Fuchs - Systemtheoretical views on social work
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 04:22:08 PM »

The Time of Communication
 
Communication is an idea or a concept that seems to have dominated
the century now coming to a close. And it is not very difficult to foresee
that it will be one of the key-concepts of the coming third millennium.
The interesting question for sociology is: why has so much attention
been paid to communication? Is this incredible flowering, this enormous
boom due to a hope that the improvement of communication may also
signify an improvement in peaceful and meaningful relations among
human beings? Does this concept concern a deep desire of humankind,
an unattainable desire for a sort of fusion between the individuals that
we call human beings? Or more mundanely: is the success of this
concept only a reflection of the simple fact that men cannot live without
talking to one another?

Niklas Luhmann has given a quite different answer to this question.
His essential idea is that communication may be defined as the sole,
the unique, social operation. Outside communication, there may be
consciousnesses, elephants, dogs, stones, human beings etc., but not
anything like society. Luhmann's central discovery is the idea of this
rigorous (if not to say: absolute) separation or uncoupling of social (i.e.
communicative) systems from an environment that does not contain
social operations. This idea contravenes the deeply-rooted conscious-or
human-centred tradition of Europe. If Luhmann is right, then this
tradition is transformed into a spiritual world. In any case, it follows that
we have to discuss Niklas Luhmann's concept of communication
carefully.

Firstly published in: "Das gepfefferte Ferkel". Online-Journal für systemisches Denken und Handeln Juli 2002. http://www.ibs-networld.de/altesferkel/juli-fuchs-communication.shtml

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Re: Peter Fuchs - Systemtheoretical views on social work
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 04:46:45 PM »

Die Moral des Systems Sozialer Arbeit - systematisch

Daß das, was man die moderne Gesellschaft nennt, keine moralisch oder gar ethisch beruhigte Zone ist, lehrt jeder Blick in die Massenmedien. Im Gegenteil: Man kann den Eindruck gewinnen, daß keine der Sozialformationen der Vergangenheit in dieser Hinsicht so aufgeheizt war wie diejenige, in deren Umwelt wir (erstaunt über so viel Empörungsmöglichkeiten) herumstehen. Selbst diejenigen, die vor den Folgen der inflationären Moral- und Ethikvermehrung warnen, tun das aus Gründen, die sich ihrerseits als moralisierte Gründe beobachten lassen: Man warnt aus moralischen Gründen vor der Moral, oder man mutet der Ethik zu, sie müsse aus ethischen Erwägungen heraus die Leute bitten, auf der Hut vor dem zu sein, was sie eigentlich reflektiert: vor Moral.

Wer allerdings in hoch moralisierten Kontexten arbeitet, gar in einem Studiengang für Soziale Arbeit sein wissenschaftliches Auskommen zu finden trachtet, wird die Warnung gut verstehen können. Dort entfa lten die Moralen (und die Ethiken, die sie ordnen oder legitimieren) ein geradezu unglaubliches Streit- und Blockadepotential2 , zunehmend mit Struktureffekten, zum Beispiel der Rekrutierung von moralisch (also auch geschlechtlich) passenden Personen, dem Ausschluß von Leuten, die andere Moralen pflegen, oder gar solcher Leute, die sich indifferent gegenüber der Zumutung aller Moralen verhalten, also noch über das verfügen, was man klassisch ‚geistige Freiheit‘ genannt hat.

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Re: Peter Fuchs - Systemtheoretical views on social work
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2009, 05:25:20 PM »

Beratung (Consulting/Consultation)

Die drei zum Download angebotenen Texte drehen sich explizit um das Thema "Beratung". Der erste Text bietet sich als Einstieg in das Thema deswegen an, weil hier Gespräch re-konstruiert werden, die Fragen von Praktikern und Nicht-Systemtheoretikern enthalten, die auch dem ein oder anderen Leser auf den Lippen liegen könnten.

All of the three essays offered for download below are dealing with the topic "consulting/consultation". The first one includes converstions with practicioners and non-systemtheoretics and may therefore contain answers to specific questions that might also come to the mind of one or two reader.

Download: Das System und die Welt der Beratung. Zu einem Hans-Dampf in allen Gassen.

Download: Die magische Welt der Beratung.

Download: Form und Funktion von Beratung. (with Enrico Mahler)
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