Adalbert Evers
Biographic Data
| ID | 297895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adalbert Evers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adalbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Evers |
| SIGNATURE | EVERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5129-0851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Inovação, Tecnologia e Inclusão: Corpora aplicados ao estudo da dislexia e a proposta do Dyscorp (Dyslexia Corpus)
Pesquisas recentes nas áreas de Neurociência, Psicologia Cognitiva e Linguística têm aprimorado a compreensão dos processos neurais da leitura. No entanto, muitos desses achados não chegam efetivamente às salas de aula e aos consultórios, mesmo com o aumento de diagnósticos de transtornos do neurodesenvolvimento, como a dislexia, que afetam leitura e escrita. Corpora específicos para estudos sobre a dislexia não são abundantes e trazem informaçõe…
Local Climate Governance: Towards more Interactive Practices and Settings
While environmental challenges are high on the public agenda, they have raised many questions concerning the ability of society and politics to cope with them. In liberal democracies, they challenge the traditional interplay between the state, business sector, and the various forces of civil society. Relating to the concepts of a more interactive and collaborative governance agenda, this study focuses on the local level of climate governance in m…
More or Less Political: Findings on a Central Feature of Local Engagement for Refugees in Germany
The article is based on research in the region of Heidelberg—the city itself and two small municipalities nearby. It addresses three dimensions of local support movements for refugees: (1) the varying bundles of motives among those engaged, (2) the diversity of organizations concerned and (3) their interaction with the local political administration. A focal point of the study concerns features and processes that give actions and organizations a …
Volunteering and Civic Action: Boundaries Blurring, Boundaries Redrawn
The aim of this introduction to the special issue is to call into question the presumed conceptual divide between volunteering and civic action and suggest an analytical tool and four perspectives that bring to light the varying meanings of popular engagement. Volunteering and civic action are laden with different moral meanings, are associated with different theoretical approaches and, just as important, have been assigned different roles in soc…
Diversity and Coherence: Historical Layers of Current Civic Engagement in Germany
In Germany, like in other countries, the notions of volunteering and civic action altogether describe a wide diversity of activities. Often, this wide spectre is put together under ‘civic engagement’, reaching from civic action that is sometimes overtly ‘political’ over to engagement as volunteering in areas like sports or culture. Yet in academic contributions that use such a wide concept, nothing much can be found about a convincing differentia…
Sociedad civil y bien común. Hacia una nueva articulación del mercado, el estado y la sociedad civil. Tomo I
La presente obra propone una sana relación entre las lógicas del mercado, del Estado y del don -cuya sede principal es la sociedad civil-, sin que cada una de esas dimensiones pierda su propia autonomía relativa. No solamente plantea dicha nueva articulación en el nivel teórico, sino que la muestra en nuevas praxis sociales, sobre todo en el nivel local y micro, pero con proyecciones posibles tanto nacionales como continentales y globales. Un cam…
Letramento científico e simplificação textual: O papel do tradutor no acesso ao conhecimento científico
A partir de um exercício de aula que envolveu simplificar um texto científico em português sobre a Doença de Parkinson (DP) para compreensão por leitores brasileiros leigos de baixa escolaridade, realizado com acadêmicos de tradução, em meio às suas atividades de Educação a Distância (EAD), estabelecemos uma relação entre os conceitos de tradução intralinguística, letramento científico e simplificação textual. Para tanto, destacamos as diferenças…
Vocabulário, complexidade textual e compreensão de leitura em ambientes digitais de ensino: Uma investigação inicial com alunos do Ensino Médio / Vocabulary, textual complexity and reading comprehensi…
Neste artigo, relata-se uma investigação inicial que pretendeu qualificar a elaboração e a facilidade de uso de recursos didáticos para Educação a Distância (EAD) na área de Letras/Língua Portuguesa e Leitura. Apresentam-se o planejamento do recurso, a seleção de materiais e as noções teóricas envolvidas e o desenho inicial da atividade, que consistiu em ler e avaliar a complexidade de um conjunto de textos curtos. A experiência revelou sucesso a…
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
Engagement und Beteiligung: Das konvivialistische Manifest als Anstoß zu ihrer Neuverschränkung
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
In light of the major challenges facing societies and political and social systems in Europe, there is an increasing focus on micro-scale social innovations. But what can such innovations contribute? How can they best be understood? And how can a positive interaction between these forms of social innovation and public policies for reform be ensured? The EU-funded international research project, 'Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of…
Concevoir l’innovation sociale dans une perspective de transformation
Analyser en contexte la dimension normative de l’innovation sociale
Changes in Work and Human Services: On the Risks and Chances They Entail for Volunteering
Blueprints for the Future of Welfare Provision? Shared Features of Service Innovations across Europe
This article discusses localised forms of social innovation in social services in relation to social policy and welfare issues. It draws upon research findings from the EU project ‘Welfare Innovations at the local Level in favour of Cohesion’ (WILCO), which takes in social innovations in twenty European cities. First, we argue why there is currently a significant gap between the debate on social innovation and the debate on social welfare reforms…
Social Policy and Citizenship: The Changing Landscape
In both Europe and America, the landscape of social policies has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades, especially in endeavors to develop new welfare arrangements. How does this affect citizenship-at-large as defined by the Marshallian triad of personal, democratic, and social rights? Taking nine European countries as case studies, the chapters analyze the ways that citizenship has changed in key areas such as social security, labor ma…
Introduction: Marshall’s Concept Of Citizenship And Contemporary Welfare Reconfiguration
After outlining the concept of citizenship, as conceptualized by T. H. Marshall half a century ago, this chapter reviews the major debates and criticisms that have developed during the subsequent decades and discusses the current changes in societies and social policies that are viewed as especially important for citizenship: labor market changes, the expansion of the consumer sphere, pluralization, migration, and Europeanization. This leads to a…
An Ambiguous Concept: On the Meanings of Co-production for Health Care Users and User Organizations
Neither on the level of interactions between organizations nor on the level of servicing users, co-production has a fixed meaning. It is argued that there are different meanings that unfold once one looks at the impact of narratives such as consumerism, managerialism, or participatory governance. Altogether with the traditions of state-welfare, they simultaneously influence the modes and meanings of co-production in personal services. Taking up t…
ISTR Voluntas Best Paper Award 2012
Einleitung: Soziale Dienste – Arenen und Impulsgeber sozialen Wandels
Mit diesem Handbuch wird der Versuch unternommen, eine Lücke in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur zu füllen. Obwohl soziale Dienste ein zentraler Faktor des gesellschaftlichen Alltags, der Architektur moderner Wohlfahrtsstaaten und der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsstruktur sind, liegen bislang kaum zusammenfassende, Überblick gebende sozialwissenschaftliche Kompendien oder Lehrbücher für diesen Bereich vor (vgl. aber das Kapitel "Soziale Dienst…
Wohlfahrtsmix und soziale Dienste
Der Begriff des Wohlfahrtsmix, entstanden in den sozialpolitischen Debatten der 1980er- Jahre, hat auch jenseits der Frage nach seinen spezifischen analytischen Inhalten eine bis heute anhaltende Attraktivität, die über den akademischen Bereich hinausgeht. Dafür mag es zwei gute Gründe geben. Der erste liegt wohl darin, dass sich mit diesem Begriff eine neue Richtung des Nachdenkens über Lebenszusammenhänge, Modernisierungs- und Reformkonzepte ei…
Handbuch Soziale Dienste
Handbuch Soziale Dienste
Kommentar: … wie wir sie kannten?: Politik und Demokratie angesichts des Klimawandels
Observations on incivility: Blind spots in third sector research and policy
Incivility is not only a moral or political challenge but also something that should make the third sector research community think about the appropriateness of some of its widely used basic concepts. This paper sketches three different types of attitudes in the third sector that are a threat to civil society, each of them pointing to challenges for third sector research. Altogether, this leads to a fourth and final point, where it is argued that…
Part of the welfare mix: The third sector as an intermediate area
This article presents a conceptional framework which analyses the third sector as a part of a mixed welfare system, otherwise made up of the market, the state and the informal private household spheres. From this perspective, the third sector appears as a dimension of the public space in civil societies: an intermediate area rather than a clear-cut sector. Third sector organisations are understood as polyvalent organisations whose social and poli…
Developing child-care provision in England and Germany: Problems of governance
Both the UK and German governments have sought to expand child-care provision. There is some evidence of convergence between the two countries in respect of changes in governance as well, but we suggest that the differences remain more striking. The paper draws on national-level data and local case-studies in both countries. We comment on the nature of the expansion of child care and, briefly, on the degree of commitment to it, before exploring t…
An Ambiguous Concept: On the Meanings of Co-production for Health Care Users and User Organizations
Neither on the level of interactions between organizations nor on the level of servicing users, co-production has a fixed meaning. It is argued that there are different meanings that unfold once one looks at the impact of narratives such as consumerism, managerialism, or participatory governance. Altogether with the traditions of state-welfare, they simultaneously influence the modes and meanings of co-production in personal services. Taking up t…
Civicness and Civility: Their Meanings for Social Services
Civicness and civility are discussed as intertwined notions. To the degree they flourish, societies can be seen as civil societies. Providing some reflection on them may make a difference to the usual civil society and third sector debates. These concepts are not based on or confined to a specific sector like the third sector; basically all social sectors can contribute to and be marked by them, depending on their constellations and interplay. Th…
Volunteering and Civic Action: Boundaries Blurring, Boundaries Redrawn
The aim of this introduction to the special issue is to call into question the presumed conceptual divide between volunteering and civic action and suggest an analytical tool and four perspectives that bring to light the varying meanings of popular engagement. Volunteering and civic action are laden with different moral meanings, are associated with different theoretical approaches and, just as important, have been assigned different roles in soc…
Blueprints for the Future of Welfare Provision? Shared Features of Service Innovations across Europe
This article discusses localised forms of social innovation in social services in relation to social policy and welfare issues. It draws upon research findings from the EU project ‘Welfare Innovations at the local Level in favour of Cohesion’ (WILCO), which takes in social innovations in twenty European cities. First, we argue why there is currently a significant gap between the debate on social innovation and the debate on social welfare reforms…
Civicness and the Third Sector: Introduction
Civility has not been a big topic in the expanding research on civil society during the last two decades. This could well reflect a more general reluctance in the modern social sciences to address moral questions and normative considerations in the investigations. One clear exception is the ''global civil society'' debate, which is concerned with a more normative and political concept than civil society as such (and which is more a subject for so…
Les dimensions sociopolitiques du tiers secteur
More or Less Political: Findings on a Central Feature of Local Engagement for Refugees in Germany
The article is based on research in the region of Heidelberg—the city itself and two small municipalities nearby. It addresses three dimensions of local support movements for refugees: (1) the varying bundles of motives among those engaged, (2) the diversity of organizations concerned and (3) their interaction with the local political administration. A focal point of the study concerns features and processes that give actions and organizations a …
Social Capital and Civic Commitment: On Putnam's Way of Understanding
The paper addresses two dimensions of the debate on social capital – the analytical concept of Robert Putnam and the way it may become interrelated with political concerns debated in public. It is argued that in Putnams' concept two dimensions of social capital – social bonds and civic commitment – are interrelated in a way that suggests that social capital is something like the basis for good policy making. Against this, the open interrelationsh…
Local Climate Governance: Towards more Interactive Practices and Settings
While environmental challenges are high on the public agenda, they have raised many questions concerning the ability of society and politics to cope with them. In liberal democracies, they challenge the traditional interplay between the state, business sector, and the various forces of civil society. Relating to the concepts of a more interactive and collaborative governance agenda, this study focuses on the local level of climate governance in m…
Diversity and Coherence: Historical Layers of Current Civic Engagement in Germany
In Germany, like in other countries, the notions of volunteering and civic action altogether describe a wide diversity of activities. Often, this wide spectre is put together under ‘civic engagement’, reaching from civic action that is sometimes overtly ‘political’ over to engagement as volunteering in areas like sports or culture. Yet in academic contributions that use such a wide concept, nothing much can be found about a convincing differentia…
Über den Umgang mit Unsicherheit
Mit dem Blick auf die Beziehung von theoretischem Wissen und gesellschaftlicher Praxis versuchen wir das Handeln sozialer Akteure im historischen Prozeß als den Versuch zu verstehen, herausfordernde Verunsicherungen zu bewältigen und Sicherheiten zu schaffen, gesellschaftliche Entwicklung auf diese Weise zu stabilisieren bzw. auf eine bestimmte Ordnung hinzuführen. Die Rolle des Wissens ist in solchen Prozessen so vielfältig wie die Aspekte, die …
Die Zweite Stadt: Neue Formen lokaler Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik
Die Zweite Stadt: Neue Formen Lokaler Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik
Towards better links and balances between social and health services in care for the elderly
Promoting health—localizing support structures for community health projects
The contributions, subject of this issue of Health Promotion were made at the 3rd Vienna Dialogue on Health and Social Policy which took place in Vienna, Austria between
Shifts in the Welfare Mix: Their Impact on Work, Social Services and Welfare Policies
Umgang mit Unsicherheit. Zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Problematisierung einer sozialen Herausforderung
“Unsicherheit”, “Ungewißheit”, “Risiko”, aber auch “Angst” und “Unternehmungsgeist” sind Begriffe, die schon seit einigen Jahren Konjunktur haben. Hier apokalyptische Zukunftsvisionen und “no future” angesichts von Großbürokratien und Großtechnokratien, dort die Beschwörung von Risikobereitschaft, “entrepreneurship” und “Mut zur Zukunft”; auf der einen Seite der schier unbegrenzte Vorrat an Ratschlägen zu einem klugen self-management von Lebensri…
Part of the welfare mix: The third sector as an intermediate area
This article presents a conceptional framework which analyses the third sector as a part of a mixed welfare system, otherwise made up of the market, the state and the informal private household spheres. From this perspective, the third sector appears as a dimension of the public space in civil societies: an intermediate area rather than a clear-cut sector. Third sector organisations are understood as polyvalent organisations whose social and poli…
Wohlfahrtspluralismus — Analytische und normativ-politische Dimensionen eines Leitbegriffs
Es kann kein Zweifel darüber bestehen, daß wir uns gegenwärtig im Bereich von sozialer Sicherung und Wohlfahrt in einer Phase tiefgreifender Umbrüche und Neuorientierungen befinden. Ökonomische, sozialstrukturelle und kulturelle Entwicklungen der letzten Jahrzehnte haben dazu geführt, daß die in der Nachkriegsära zunächst vorherrschende Staatsfixiertheit gesellschafts- und sozialpolitischer Modernisierungsdiskurse und -Strategien in allen entwick…
Wohlfahrtspluralismus: Vom Wohlfahrtsstaat zur Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft
Der Begriff des 'Wohlfahrtspluralismus' lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, dass soziale Wohlfahrt nicht allein durch staatliche Sozialpolitiken bestimmt ist. Beitrage von seiten des Marktes, von Familien, Privathaushalten und informellen sozialen Netzen sowie aus dem zivilgesellschaftlichen Bereich freier Trager und Initiativen spielen bei der Wohlfahrtsproduktion mehr als eine nur untergeordnete Rolle. Damit richtet sich der analytische Blick auf …
Consumers, Citizens and Coproducers – A Pluralistic Perspective on Democracy in Social Services
Les dimensions sociopolitiques du tiers secteur. Les contributions théoriques européennes sur la protection sociale et l’économie plurielles
À une approche économique trop réductrice du tiers secteur, cet article propose de substituer une analyse sociopolitique. Défini comme l’une des composantes de l’espace public des sociétés civiles, le tiers secteur ne constitue pas un secteur indépendant mais un espace intermédiaire à l’intersection de l’État, du marché et du secteur informel. Reliant ces différents espaces, combinant diverses ressources et rationalités sociales, il se caractéris…
Les dimensions sociopolitiques du tiers secteur
Who's Who in the 'Real World'? What do Germany, the Netherlands and the United States Stand for in Relation to Welfare
Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, x+358 pp.The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism represents the fruits of ten years' interaction of an international team of colleagues from Australia and the Netherlands. What it does can be summarised as follows: it compares different welfare states each of which is deemed to represent one of the three…
Bürgergesellschaft und soziales Kapital. Die politische Leerstelle im Konzept Robert Putnams
Der Begriff „Sozialkapital“ ist eine Art Modebegriff geworden, in der öffentlichen Debatte und in den Sozialwissenschaften. Der folgende Beitrag wird daher den Versuch unternehmen, beide Dimensionen des Konzepts mit einzubeziehen — das analytische Konstrukt und seine Verschränkung mit öffentlich debattierten gesellschaftspolitischen Erwägungen. Aus demselben Grunde steht dabei auch jenes spezielle Konzept von Sozialkapital im Zentrum, das in akad…
Social Capital and Civic Commitment: On Putnam's Way of Understanding
The paper addresses two dimensions of the debate on social capital – the analytical concept of Robert Putnam and the way it may become interrelated with political concerns debated in public. It is argued that in Putnams' concept two dimensions of social capital – social bonds and civic commitment – are interrelated in a way that suggests that social capital is something like the basis for good policy making. Against this, the open interrelationsh…
From institutional fixation to entrepreneurial mobility? The German third sector and its contemporary challenges
This book explores Europe's third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy.
The Third Sector in Europe
Contents: Introduction Part I: Distinct Realities and Concepts: The Third Sector in Europe Part II: Social Economies, Voluntary Agencies and the Civil Society: The Third Sector in Various European Countries Part III: The Third Sector, the State and the European Union Part IV: What Matters with Respect to the Third Sector? Theoretical Considerations Index
Defining the third sector in Europe
This book explores Europe's third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy.
Social services by social enterprises: On the possible contributions of hybrid organizations and a civil society
This book explores Europe's third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy.
Mixed Welfare Systems and Hybrid Organizations: Changes in the Governance and Provision of Social Services
The provision and governance of personal social services is nowadays often thought as a matter of finding the right balance between market principles and state regulation. However often, personal social services depend as well from a third resource and mechanism of governance: It is the impact of the social capital of civil society, which makes itself felt not only by resources such as grants, donations, and volunteering, but as well by networkin…
Developing child-care provision in England and Germany: Problems of governance
Both the UK and German governments have sought to expand child-care provision. There is some evidence of convergence between the two countries in respect of changes in governance as well, but we suggest that the differences remain more striking. The paper draws on national-level data and local case-studies in both countries. We comment on the nature of the expansion of child care and, briefly, on the degree of commitment to it, before exploring t…
Local policy networks in the programme Social City —a case in point for new forms of governance in the field of local social work and urban planning1 Lokale Politiknetzwerke im Programm Soziale Stadt …
The federal programme Social City represents a concept that is different from traditional urban planning, social work and local economic development as well as planning concepts in various ways. The developmental processes to be set into motion on the level of city districts: should make cooperation between various sectors and actors a key issue; should encourage them to invest into this cooperation and use the resources to be brought about by th…
Sozialpolitik: Ökonomisierung und Entgrenzung
Investiv und aktivierend oder ökonomistisch und bevormundend? Zur Auseinandersetzung mit einer neuen Generation von Sozialpolitiken
Die folgenden Überlegungen bauen auf einer Annahme auf, die in diesem Beitrag selbst nicht belegt werden kann. Seit einigen Jahrzehnten bildet sich im Kontext von Globalisierung, neuen technologischen Entwicklungen und tiefgreifenden politischen und kulturellen Brüchen mit veränderten Gesellschaftspolitiken auch so etwas wie eine neue Generation von Sozialpolitiken heraus. Sie unterscheidet sich in einigen wesentlichen Punkten von denen der „tren…
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