Social Work in a Risk Society: Social and Political Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780333963616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str.

Stephen Webb

Opis

This text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory and taking into account recent changes in social work. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes in the work of theorists such as Beck, Giddens, and Rose. It looks at risk, trust, regulation, identity, and governmentality to explore the impact of risk society and neoliberalism on social work.

Spis treści

Preface.- Social Work, Risk Society and Modernity.- Risk, Regulation and Neo-Liberalism.- Security, Trust and Care Pathways.- Direct Work, Knowledge and Intervention.- Technologies of Care.- Management and Organization of Social Work.- The Practice of Value.- Bibliography.

O autorze

STEPHEN WEBB is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, UK.