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A Socio-philosophical approach of Social Quality
As one of the results of the theoretical work (see above) the Foundation, in co-operation with the University of Tilburg and the University of Humanistics, is developing a project on the sociophilosophical approach of Social Quality. This project aims at developing a broader concept of a communicative life world, which can help to bridge the gap between social theory, social policy and empirical research. To this end a paradigmatic ambivalence within the Social Quality approach, manifesting an analogous ambivalence in Habermas' theory is analysed and remedied
by reinterpreting and broadening his analysis of the constitution of the social life world. Firstly, the
project aims at a reinterpretation of anthropological theories about the bodily infrastructure of
human life, its fragility and its finitude in the context of a social life world. Secondly, contemporary
theories about the narrative constitution of identities and the cultural encoding of social life-worlds
will be used. They will relate widely diverging individual articulations of social quality to broadly
shared moral themes and existential dilemmas. Along these lines, Habermas's rather formal and
procedural conception of intersubjectivity is given more 'social body', leading to a better
interrelation of social theory, social policy and empirical research, which presents the main
ambition of the Social Quality Approach. This project is supported by the Dutch Scientific Fund
(NWO). The results of this project will be published in the European Journal of Social Quality,
Volume 7, Issue 1 (2007).
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