Milieu und Milieubildung

In the milieu perspective, social work's access to the living environments of its clients can not only be expanded in socio-spatial and socio-cultural terms, but also the way they are embedded in the social structure of a society can be opened up. In this way, the dimension of social integration, which is central to social work, can also be grasped. The concept of milieu formation, in turn, gives social pedagogical work an accentuation in which the person- and group-oriented perspective of action can be combined with a socio-structural perspective without the lifeworld connection of social pedagogy being lost. In this sense, the milieu is seen as a space of experience and coping that moves in the lifeworld and at the same time is shaped by social structure and permeated by values, which appears in the respective habitus of the addressees that can be influenced by pedagogy.