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HJÆLP TIL SELVHJÆLP

Fritzdorf, Authony LU (2018) SOCK04 20181
Sociology
Department of Sociology
Abstract
On one hand Self-help is seen as social instrument providing disabled people assistance and
emphasizing the citizen's motivation and commitment in compensating for their needs. But
historically, on the other hand, Self-help in terms of care in a social repayment- and control system
is interpreted from an intellectual clash between philanthropic and liberal thinking about the right to
care, resulteded in a compensation policy to keep solidarity thoughts away.
The purpose of the essay, based on this historical interpretation, is to investigate how actors in the
Danish disability movement perceive the Self-help policy in relation to a self-understanding of their
own citizenship role. This tension between politics and self-understanding... (More)
On one hand Self-help is seen as social instrument providing disabled people assistance and
emphasizing the citizen's motivation and commitment in compensating for their needs. But
historically, on the other hand, Self-help in terms of care in a social repayment- and control system
is interpreted from an intellectual clash between philanthropic and liberal thinking about the right to
care, resulteded in a compensation policy to keep solidarity thoughts away.
The purpose of the essay, based on this historical interpretation, is to investigate how actors in the
Danish disability movement perceive the Self-help policy in relation to a self-understanding of their
own citizenship role. This tension between politics and self-understanding shows how a utopian
knowledge of the spiritual social culture of disability stands back, to emphasize a modelered form
of knowledge, in order to maintain its independence as an intuitive disability organization. In the
light of Mannheim's theory of "free-floating intelligentsia", a theoretical understanding of Self-help
is given that highlight groups of intellectuals from a historical perspective of social, cultural and
individual relationships in a social and political context. The theoretical frame is linked to an
empirical study based on interviews and mails with the disability organizations Dansk
Handicapforbund, Muskelsvindfonden, Landsforeningen for Evnesvages Vel and
Spastikerforeningen, which all have different types of view on Self-help depending on their type of
disability. Various views of disability are compared between the investigated organizations and an
analysis is conducted how different types of knowledge affect the view of the members own
disability and how the organizations structures their activities.
The presentation of the theoretical and empirical material, highlights the social and cultural reasons
for how we treat the disability in society. The thesis tries to highlight the potential of disabled
people to a common intellectual knowledge, and how this spiritual social ability fades away in
terms of political interests in consensus. (Less)
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Fritzdorf, Authony LU
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course
SOCK04 20181
year
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
disability, organization, knowledge.
language
Danish
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8952114
date added to LUP
2018-06-21 11:38:22
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2018-06-21 11:38:22
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  abstract     = {{On one hand Self-help is seen as social instrument providing disabled people assistance and
emphasizing the citizen's motivation and commitment in compensating for their needs. But
historically, on the other hand, Self-help in terms of care in a social repayment- and control system
is interpreted from an intellectual clash between philanthropic and liberal thinking about the right to
care, resulteded in a compensation policy to keep solidarity thoughts away.
The purpose of the essay, based on this historical interpretation, is to investigate how actors in the
Danish disability movement perceive the Self-help policy in relation to a self-understanding of their
own citizenship role. This tension between politics and self-understanding shows how a utopian
knowledge of the spiritual social culture of disability stands back, to emphasize a modelered form
of knowledge, in order to maintain its independence as an intuitive disability organization. In the
light of Mannheim's theory of "free-floating intelligentsia", a theoretical understanding of Self-help
is given that highlight groups of intellectuals from a historical perspective of social, cultural and
individual relationships in a social and political context. The theoretical frame is linked to an
empirical study based on interviews and mails with the disability organizations Dansk
Handicapforbund, Muskelsvindfonden, Landsforeningen for Evnesvages Vel and
Spastikerforeningen, which all have different types of view on Self-help depending on their type of
disability. Various views of disability are compared between the investigated organizations and an
analysis is conducted how different types of knowledge affect the view of the members own
disability and how the organizations structures their activities.
The presentation of the theoretical and empirical material, highlights the social and cultural reasons
for how we treat the disability in society. The thesis tries to highlight the potential of disabled
people to a common intellectual knowledge, and how this spiritual social ability fades away in
terms of political interests in consensus.}},
  author       = {{Fritzdorf, Authony}},
  language     = {{dan}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{HJÆLP TIL SELVHJÆLP}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}