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The study gives an insight into the professional reality of self-employed professional guardians in the field of legal guardianship in Germany. The focus of the qualitative research work is on the self-perceptions of the professional guardians and how they deal with the areas of tension that are caused by a lack of clarity in the understanding of the profession and by the structural framework conditions. An approach is made by means of a „Deutungsmuster“ analysis, in the context of which problem-centred interviews are conducted with professional guardians, and a two-stage qualitative Delphi-interview with experts from the field of legal guardianship.

The adequate understanding of the logic of structural hermeneutics is depending on the assumptions of social ontology of the cultural and psychodynamic grammar and the social mechanism between generativity of structues and performative social practices of social reality in the background of methodology of designing and apllications of methods. In the centre of the social ontology we will define the position of the poststructural theory ofthe ce-centralized subject with intra-individual habitus. The book is a contribution of these epistemological modes of reconstructive qualitative social research.