Utilizing the theory of communicative action for community based social work

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590133
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: ONO Tatsuya 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 准教授 (30320419)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地域福祉

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to utilize the theory of Habermas’s communicative action for community based social work. The study focused on three aspects; theoretical rearrangement of his theory, examination of social welfare practices and creation of a good model from these practices.
This study considered whether Habermas’s theory of communicative action could be used in social welfare practices. In order to find it, I rearranged his theory to apply it to community based welfare practices. Some social welfare practices were examined, which found that the communicative action was partially used by the social workers. Also, a good model of community based social work was identified.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学