Social work: A problem-oriented introduction

Lothar Böhnisch; Wolfgang Schröer

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2016

Social work

A problem-oriented introduction

Lothar Böhnisch and Wolfgang Schröer

In the series De Gruyter Studium

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110440126

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About this book

In many regions of the world the twenty-first century has started with a structure of endless challenges for social work. Social work seems to be in demand almost everywhere, from support schemes for children and young people into adulthood and on to support for elderly people, in community work in cities and rural regions, in disaster relief and in care for refugees. This book describes the field of social work – its themes, problems and methods – in the face of the concept of the second, reflexive modernisation. The question needs to be asked of how, and whether, social work’s success story from the first modernity can continue. We discuss the second modernity as a time of blurring boundaries. Today, it frequently faces the problem that the organised terms of its approaches come up against a social reality where the frameworks of social life are becoming dynamic. Normalised structures are dissolving or becoming mixed with new ones; boundaries are blurring and new ones appearing.

A basic introduction
Providing new stimuli for the discipline of social work
Description of concepts, themes and methods

Author / Editor information

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröer (University of Hildesheim); Prof. Dr. Lothar Böhnisch (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

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1. Normalization and Dissolution of Boundaries: Social Work at the Start of the Twenty-First Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Critical Living Circumstances: Distress, Vulnerability and Neediness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3. Coping with Life as a Social Pedagogical Concept Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
4. The Four Dimensions of the Situation of Coping as Means of Access for Social Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
5. The Socio-Political, Socio-Ethical Perspective: Social and Generational Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
6. Recommendations for Action Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
7. Enablement in Light of the Blurring Life Stage Borders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
8. Social Problems and Social Integration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
9. Professional Agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
10. Social Work and Welfare Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
11. Transnational Approaches: Commons, Citizenship, Care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Students, social workers, teachers, and researchers into educational science, sociology and social work
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 154
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1

eBook

Published: November 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110440126

Paperback

Published: November 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110440119