Exploring Social Work: An Anthropological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781447350729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Linda Bell

Opis

This unique study of social work provides a bold and challenging view of the subject from an anthropological perspective. Combining research and personal reflection, it explores cultural and symbolic representations of social work, evolving identities of social work practitioners and the ways in which they and society now view one another.

Spis treści

Who are “social workers”? Why do we need them? Getting involved: an auto-ethnographic enquiry; Time and change : UK social work and comparative social work cultures since 1990; Becoming: being admitted, trained and accepted as a social worker; Identifying: professional identity/ies; Valuing and transgressing: practice and research values, and ‘becoming unfit’ to practice; Practising and relating: Social workers and relationships; Partnering: Social workers, other professionals and clients/ service users; Knowing and evidencing: building a research base, mapping and modelling; Symbolising: cultural representations in theory and in practice; Organising: the development of national and international associations; Changing: Social work and the public, anthropological reflections & conclusions on an ever changing profession – the future?