Prévention précoce, nouvelle gestion publique et figures d’autorité

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23200086
AutoresMichel Parazelli (Université du Québec à Montréal), Suzanne Dessureault (Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité Sociale (Québec))
Ano2010
Volume1-2
Fascículo1
Páginas13-26
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLes Politiques Sociales (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1374-1942
EditoraCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/lps.101.0013
OpenAlexW3173092187
IdiomaFR
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas5

This article aims to contribute to reflection on the exercise of authority involved in the setting-up of early prevention programmes in Quebec. These are being put in place in the socio-political context of the recent managerial reform of health and social service systems, a reform inspired by the principles of the “new public management” and by the drive for “best practices”. We analyse some of the social and symbolic dimensions of the power structures resulting from the overlap of trends in management with the reasoning of scientific positivism. We arrive at the hypothesis that early prevention coupled with the new public management leads to the build-up of a hierarchy of powers. The authority of positivist science imposes an additional control on the practice of social workers and on the young families said to be at risk.

Context (archaeology) · Geography · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Power (physics) · Public relations · Reflection (computer programming) · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Law · Public Administration · Social Policies and Family · Social Sciences and Governance