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The residue of welfarism is directed towards security based upon a more conditional, risk based provision. The aim is to predict future behaviour on the basis of prospective patterning, to which differentiation and classification are key. These were also key roles under welfarism, but as precursors to some form of social intervention. Here, they represent the basis of categorisation for the purposes of risk management. Associated transformations reflect changes in the way that individuals are constituted theoretically following the decline in faith in the knowledge, techniques and practices of modernism.
This is because the logic of risk functions as a ‘predominantly morally conservative and repressive social, political and cultural force in contemporary social work’ (Stanford 2008, p. 209), thus promoting defensive practice. Risk practices are therefore seen as part of the apparatus via which a governmental commitment to welfare provision is displaced. In line with the priority attached to individualism and responsibility within neoliberal thought, service users are deemed to have contributed to their own misfortune by virtue of ‘individual failing and moral ineptitude’ (Lavalette 2011, p.
Here, ‘the “psy” disciplines . . welfare . . and social sciences, become the crucial relayers of a political culture in the promotion of forms of the cultivation of the self’ (Dean 1994, p. 211). These concerns are also to the fore within Foucault’s governmental work. Governmentality Governmentality has come to be seen as a distinctive and original stage in Foucault’s thinking and has been drawn on and expanded by other theorists seeking to understand the role played by power in society. There are two meanings of the term governmentality.