In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 35, No. 6 ( 2006-12-1), p. 485-505
Abstract:
Counseling today is a ubiquitous every-day practice, but it is also offered by professional counseling facilities. The latter are the subject of this article, which focuses on the function of counseling within the development and structure of Western societies. Three social theories - these of Luhmann, Bourdieu and Foucault - are used to show different aspects of counseling as a social innovation in the 20 th century. In this investigation counseling turns out to be a social system supporting social inclusion, as a field of competition which produces discourses of self-modification, and as a new instrument within the technologies of the self. In addition counseling-services are interesting fields for exploring recent social development as far as individuals and their every-day life are affected.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2366-0325
,
0340-1804
DOI:
10.1515/zfsoz-2006-0604
Language:
English
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
2006
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2075809-1
detail.hit.zdb_id:
120446-4
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2546312-3
SSG:
2,1
SSG:
3,4
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