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A Better World For Children: Explorations in Morality and Authority (1997)

By Michael King

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
9780203441725, 9780415150170, 9780415150187, 0415150175, 0415150183
LCC
HV713 .K555 1997
Open Library ID
OL993788M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1212603 bytes)
Pages
240\241
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society. Questioning the relationship between personal morality and political will, it challenges the assumption that changing society is merely a matter of changing attitudes and highlights the pitfalls associated with formulating social reform.

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