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The ecosocial concept reconstructs the intercorrelations in which human care and social work happen and where welfare can occur. We live, act and interact amidst our concrete (social and cultural, material and natural) surroundings and world. We are part of it, we are dependent on it and we shape it with our conduct and way of life. The ecosocial theory omits the usual juxtaposition of economy, ecology and social issues. To view something ecologically means to conceive of it comprehensively and in the entirety of the context to which it belongs. The ecosocial paradigm is a paradigm of insiderness and participation.
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Wendt, Wolf Rainer. 2014. Die Signifikanz von Wohlfahrt. In Sorgen für Wohlfahrt, ed. Wolf Rainer Wendt, 19–35. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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Wendt, W.R. (2021). What to Think of in the Ecosocial Concept. In: Ecology of Common Care. SpringerBriefs in Social Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65699-7_2
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