Social Work in a Risk Society
Social and Political Perspectives
Published on 23. January 2006
288 pages
978-0-230-21442-2 (ISBN)
Description
This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes from Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work.
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STEPHEN WEBB is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Content
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.
