چکیده:
Recognizing concepts and correctly understanding their implicit connotations is one of the prerequisites for applying them in various contexts. This article, with an analytical and theoretical approach, questions conventional definitions of social policy and introduces social policy as a combination of text and discourse based on two textual and discursive characteristics, using a critical analysis approach. In this sense, social policy is based on power relations and is an aspect of the rationality of government and its ideological apparatus. Meanwhile, all conventional definitions of social policy, regardless of the ontological lens regarding the truth of social policy, either see it as a tool to achieve development (a functional approach) or, in goal-oriented definitions, merely emphasize its goals (a goal-oriented approach). The article, while contrasting these two approaches, presents a new conceptualization of social policy and opens up new and broader horizons in the field of theory and research in the field of social policy.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Social Policy as Text and Discourse Karam Habibpour Kotabi Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kharazmi University Vol. 24, No. 1: 227-205 Shapa 2809-1010 Indexed in ISC Received: 2017/12/26 Accepted: 2018/06/18 Abstract Recognizing concepts and correctly understanding their implicit meanings is one of the prerequisites for applying them in various contexts.
The present article, with an analytical and theoretical approach, while questioning conventional definitions of social policy, introduces social policy as a combination of text and discourse with a critical analysis approach, and conceptualizes it based on two textual and discursive characteristics.
For example, Maguire, Hoskins, Ball & Braun 2 (2011) in their study on the discourses of policymaking in school textbooks, with a discursive look at school texts, consider these texts to be composed of discursive practices and events and believe that the purpose of all of them is to establish order in school and society on a wider scale.
1 Stephen Ball 2 Maguire, Hoskins, Ball & Braun The author, in this critical analysis, following the thought of Stephen Ball, believes that social policy is a combination of text and discourse.
6. Social policy discourse can be produced by actors and agents )including government, families, civil society institutions such as non-governmental organizations, the private sector, international organizations( who play roles such as supporter, executor, supervisor, definer, and guide to achieve specific goals )Ghafari & Habibpour Katabi, 1384: 155(.
Following Foucault, social policy discourses are not merely text, but a form of power.
Therefore, based on Foucault's discursive models, power and conflict are constitutive elements of the discourse of social policy )Torfing, n.
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