This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand how these cases of patient-neglect in NHS hospitals and failures by police and social workers to address the organised sexual exploitation of young girls occurred. Through examination of the management failures and institutional vulnerabilities, and with attention to the trends of bureaucratisation and rationalisation that characterised both scandals, it reveals the explanatory power of Weber’s thought, developing a theoretical model that updates and extends Weber’s work in light of the cases discussed. The final chapter examines the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights how the focus on a rational techno-medical solution to the pandemic offered by the vaccines together with bureaucratic expansion has created an authoritarian and totalitarian society which represents the ultimate realisation of Weber’s iron cage. Showing that ordinary people, including professionals, are still trapped in the ‘iron cage’, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory, as well as those providing training and working within the caring and service professions of policing, social work and nursing.
| ISBN: | 9781032154084 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2022 |
| Author: | Rowena University of Bedfordshire, UK Slope |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Classical and Contemporary Social Theory |
| Genres: |
Health & Fitness Personal and public health / health education Nursing Social work Medical sociology Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Social theory Crime and criminology Midwifery |
This book explores two public sector scandals in the UK, drawing on Max Weber’s thought on ‘the iron cage’ to understand how these cases of patient-neglect in NHS hospitals and failures by police and social workers to address the organised sexual exploitation of young girls occurred. Through examination of the management failures and institutional vulnerabilities, and with attention to the trends of bureaucratisation and rationalisation that characterised both scandals, it reveals the explanatory power of Weber’s thought, developing a theoretical model that updates and extends Weber’s work in light of the cases discussed. The final chapter examines the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights how the focus on a rational techno-medical solution to the pandemic offered by the vaccines together with bureaucratic expansion has created an authoritarian and totalitarian society which represents the ultimate realisation of Weber’s iron cage. Showing that ordinary people, including professionals, are still trapped in the ‘iron cage’, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory, as well as those providing training and working within the caring and service professions of policing, social work and nursing.
Care in the Iron Cage features in the following genres: Health & Fitness, Personal and public health / health education, Nursing, Social work, Medical sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Social theory, Crime and criminology, Midwifery
Care in the Iron Cage is available in Hardback
Care in the Iron Cage was written by Rowena University of Bedfordshire, UK Slope and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Care in the Iron Cage has 176 pages
Yes it is part of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory series
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