'When I Look I Am Seen, So I Exist to Change': Supplementing Honneth's Recognition Model for Social Work

The subject of identity continues to attract widespread interest and debate in the social sciences. The nature of who we are, our potential to be different, and our similarity with others, underpins many present-day social issues. This paper contributes to this debate by examining critically the wor...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanley Houston (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Social Work & Society, 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to this object online.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000 am a22000003u 4500
001 doaj_a6bbb7e3647d4a5ebfce5f94e9611255
042 |a dc 
100 1 0 |a Stanley Houston  |e author 
245 0 0 |a 'When I Look I Am Seen, So I Exist to Change': Supplementing Honneth's Recognition Model for Social Work 
260 |b Social Work & Society,   |c 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z. 
500 |a 1613-8953 
520 |a The subject of identity continues to attract widespread interest and debate in the social sciences. The nature of who we are, our potential to be different, and our similarity with others, underpins many present-day social issues. This paper contributes to this debate by examining critically the work of Axel Honneth on optimal identity-formation. Although broadly supporting Honneth's chief construct of inter-personal recognition, a gap in his thinking is highlighted and addressed through proffering a fourth dimension to his tripartite model. This additional dimension requires demonstrations of recognition that instil hope in the face of hardship and empower positive transformations in identity. The implications of this reworked model for social work are then considered in terms of a range of approaches that can be utilised to build flourishing identities characterised by self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect and self-belief. 
546 |a EN 
690 |a identity 
690 |a recognition 
690 |a change 
690 |a social work intervention 
690 |a Education 
690 |a L 
655 7 |a article  |2 local 
786 0 |n Social Work and Society, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2015) 
787 0 |n https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/437 
787 0 |n https://doaj.org/toc/1613-8953 
856 4 1 |u https://doaj.org/article/a6bbb7e3647d4a5ebfce5f94e9611255  |z Connect to this object online.