Capabilities, Technology and the Social World
Challenges and Opportunities for Social Workers and Social Work Education
Erik Jansen, Maurice Magnée, Jan Pieter Teunisse und Niels Zwikker
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Erik Jansen, Maurice Magnée, Jan Pieter Teunisse, Niels Zwikker, Capabilities, Technology and the Social World (2016), Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISSN: 0943-5484, 2015 #03, S.147
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Der Artikel widmet sich den sozialen Konsequenzen neuer Technologien und entwickelt eine Perspektive auf die sich verändernden Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten der Sozialen Arbeit. Wenngleich neue Technologien positive Wirkungen für das soziale und gesundheitliche Wohlergehen der Menschen intendieren, können unbeabsichtigt nachteilige Konsequenzen die Folge sein. Die Autoren nutzen den "Capability Approach" als normativen Rahmen, um die Effekte, die durch den Einsatz neuer Technologien in den Handlungsfeldern der Sozialen Arbeit wirksam werden, beurteilen zu können. Zur weiteren Operationalisierung dieses Ansatzes greifen die Autoren auf die Ethik der Sozialen Arbeit und den Empowerment-Ansatz zurück. Da Kompetenzen in Hinblick auf neue Technologien in der Aus- und Weiterbildung der in der Sozialen Arbeit Berufstätigen aktuell noch wenig bzw. unzureichend ausgearbeitet sind, wird abschließend die Forderung nach einer stärkeren strukturellen Verankerung dieser Kompetenzen im Ausbildungsbereich formuliert.
Starting from a reflection on the social consequences of new technologies this article offers a perspective on the roles and responsibilities of professionals in care and wellbeing regarding technological innovations. Whereas intended consequences of technology are generally beneficial for human wellbeing, unintended consequences may also be harmful. We embrace the Capability Approach as a normative framework for the integral assessment of technology outcome, but acknowledge that it needs further operationalization to concretely guide social interventions. For the social domain we therefore propose social work ethics and empowerment theory as consistent and important directions for further operationalization of the capability framework. As technological competencies are currently underspecified and underemphasized in the training of social professionals, it is argued that they should be embedded in care and wellbeing education more structurally.
Starting from a reflection on the social consequences of new technologies this article offers a perspective on the roles and responsibilities of professionals in care and wellbeing regarding technological innovations. Whereas intended consequences of technology are generally beneficial for human wellbeing, unintended consequences may also be harmful. We embrace the Capability Approach as a normative framework for the integral assessment of technology outcome, but acknowledge that it needs further operationalization to concretely guide social interventions. For the social domain we therefore propose social work ethics and empowerment theory as consistent and important directions for further operationalization of the capability framework. As technological competencies are currently underspecified and underemphasized in the training of social professionals, it is argued that they should be embedded in care and wellbeing education more structurally.