Insecurity as a factor in the transformation of social work in the modern world: to the formulation of the problem

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the impact on the transformation of social policy and social work from the side of insecurity. Insecurity is considered by the author as a specific property of a society generated by the neoliberal variant of atomizing globalization. The article describes the features and aspects of insecurity as a phenomenon and as a concept. Based on the ideas of P. Bourdieu, J. Baudrillard, J. Ranciere, N. Chomsky, G. Agamben, J. Stiglitz, the researcher analyzes the development of various manifestations of insecurity in the global world. Particular attention is paid to neoliberal myths and their transformations under these conditions, the specifics of the precariat as a social group and generally unwarrantness as the status, condition and prerequisite for the existence of late capitalism, the legal and social phenomenon of “bare life” in its opposition to the sovereign as a producer of the imperious order, and also generated to all this the production of “consent without consent” as a condition for the reproduction of insecurity. These concepts and ideas are used to study current transformations and attempts to predict future changes in the status, activities and characteristics of social work and social policy in the modern world. The author proves that social policies and social work change their status under the influence of this property in its economic, political, biopolitical, social, cultural dimensions. In addition, the author argues that insecurity changes the perspectives, limitations and characteristics of social policy and social work in the modern world: in particular, it turns out that the global world generates entire groups excluded from social policy and social work, on the one hand, and also that social policy and social work become more constellative, shimmering, – on the other.