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Die Evolution von Gesellschaft führt zu unterschiedlichen Differenzierungsformen, die immer auch als Neu-Arrangierung des Verhältnisses gelesen werden kann, welches die Gesellschaft zum Individuum einrichtet. Diese These wird im vorliegenden Buch mittels zweier Studien entlang der Werke von Émile Durkheim und Niklas Luhmann ausführlich ausgearbeitet. Beiden theoretischen Zugängen ist gemein, dass sie die Individualität des «modernen» Individuums nicht als Kompositum der Gesellschaft begreifen, vielmehr hat das Individuum seinen Standort in sich selbst und somit ausserhalb der Gesellschaft. Trotz dieser extrasozietalen Verortung bleibt Individualität gesellschaftlich verursacht, Individuen sind für die Ermöglichung und den Erhalt ihrer Individualität konstitutiv auf soziale Systeme und Inklusion angewiesen.Die Soziale Arbeit findet ihr gesellschaftliches Bezugsproblem in diesem Sachverhalt, indem sie Individualität als Kehrseite partieller Multiinklusion reflektiert und als bearbeitbare Grösse betrachtet. Ihr geht es – zumindest dann, wenn sie mehr will als nur das biologische Überleben der «Überflüssigen» zu verwalten – um das Arrangement der Inklusionen und hier um die Frage, wie Individualität auf eine gerechte Weise ermöglicht, entwickelt und stabilisiert werden kann.

This book uses social support as a central theme to provide a sound underpinning for guiding teachers to play more supportive roles in schools. It comprises a series of empirical studies that address the psychological processes involved in feeling supported and providing support, and which demonstrate how students'and teachers'well-being can be enhanced through learning and teaching in the classroom.The distinction between teachers who are caring mentors and those who simply impart knowledge has attracted considerable interest among researchers; however, in the twenty-first century education seems to be playing a more restricted role, due to the predominant focus on performance outcomes. This book addresses and identifies teachers'expanding role in education. It describes various types of support that teachers can offer students, and which serve to enhance a range of learning outcomes. Further, it provides evidence suggesting that teachers'commitment to learner development is a prerequisite for a satisfying teaching career, and that teachers'knowledge, skills and ability to provide social support in the classroom form a pathway of professional learning that can take their teaching expertise to a higher level. Lastly, the book offers policymakers suggestions on how to rekindle social support in an increasingly globalised setting in which people are becoming more and more disconnected. Given its multidisciplinary approach, the book is a unique contribution within its subject area, and will be of interest to practitioners in education and beyond.

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work.Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work.

En ces temps de morcèlement et de cloisonnement disciplinaire, il est impératif de rappeler les liens ambigus, mais néanmoins enchevêtrés, entre le travail social et la tradition sociologique dont est issu Erving Goffman. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage – travailleurs sociaux, sociologues, anthropologues, politistes et infirmiers – ouvrent la « boîte à outils goffmanienne », offrant des regards novateurs sur les enjeux contemporains entourant le travail social. Il prend appui sur une pluralité d'objets, dont la santé mentale, la toxicomanie, les soins aux personnes âgées ou avec un handicap, et l'aide aux sans-abris. Que ce soit sous l'angle épistémologique, théorique, méthodologique ou pratique, la posture goffmanienne est digne de considération. Elle permet d'observer les effets des institutions et des catégories du travail social sur les personnes ciblées. Elle aide à sortir d'une vision normative de l'intervenant pour identifier les possibilités et les contraintes qui pèsent sur lui. Elle permet également d'accéder aux dimensions tacites, affectives et parfois insoupçonnées du social et de la relation d'aide dans le but de rendre visible l'invisible, de rendre intolérable le toléré et les allant-de-soi. Les dix-sept collaborateurs rattachent certaines des ficelles qui ont été dénouées entre les deux disciplines au fil des luttes visant leur reconnaissance institutionnelle.

Discrimination? Isn't there enough talk about discrimination? Yes, indeed. That is why we have to begin countering discrimination. We need strategies that will make it inoperative or at least limit its scope. But first, we need to think how discrimination works and identify it where it works. It concerns far more than mere procedural hitches for which a few legal provisions will do. Countering Discrimination (Volume 1998 of International Perspectives in Social Work yearbook) brings papers that analyse mechanisms of social discrimination in a variety of such locations and bring proposals for counter-strategies. This is essential in social work if causes, rather than manifestations, of the problems it is concerned with are to be addressed. But it is also essential that everybody who opposes discrimination recognise its subtle and dispersed ways of operation in the human services, regardless of their own basic field of work. In this respect, the book will be useful to a very wide audience.

Die Soziale Arbeit verdankt ihre Entstehung der Entdeckung dessen, was im 19. Jahrhundert mit dem Wort »Gesellschaft« auf den Begriff gebracht wurde. Gesellschaftsbeschreibungen gehören daher zu den zentralen, mehr oder minder offengelegten Reflexionsflächen, anhand derer sich Soziale Arbeit als professionelle und disziplinäre gesellschaftliche Instanz verortet. Doch was zeichnet die Gesellschaft der Sozialen Arbeit aus? Welche Transformationen durchlaufen gesellschaftstheoretische Entwürfe aus dem Blickwinkel der Sozialen Arbeit? Die Beiträge des Bandes thematisieren diese Fragen anhand der Rezeption einschlägiger sowie aktueller sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Theorien in der Sozialen Arbeit. Sie zeichnen dabei »Gesellschaftsbilder« nach, die Aufschluss geben über das Besondere des gesellschaftstheoretischen Blicks der Sozialen Arbeit, seine spezifischen Erträge - aber auch seine eigentümlichen Limitationen.

La normativité sociale est changeante; de même, l'étude des problèmes sociaux doit se transformer. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage repensent les problèmes sociaux en dépassant les logiques de leur discipline respective. Ils proposent ainsi une lecture renouvelée de ce qui fait problème dans nos sociétés.

Provide your students with engaging material on social class and classism The impact of social class and classism on mental health functioning crosses racial, ethnic, and social lines and significantly contributes to our overall well-being. Any attempt to understand individuals must include an understanding of how economic issues and class have contributed to their difficulties. In Social Class and Classism in the Helping Professions, author William Ming Liu presents theory and research on the impact of classism and social class on mental health. He provides an original framework—the Social Class Worldview Model—for exploring each person′s individual and subjective life experiences. These experiences form a perspective that is unique to the individual. The author then helps the reader integrate this realization into the study of poverty, economic inequality, wealth, and the often overlooked implications of greed, materialism, and consumerism for a more complete understanding of social class and classism. Intended Audience This text is intended as a supplement for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses that address psychological and counseling theories, multicultural counseling, and research in the helping professions. These courses may be found in departments of counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, education, nursing, and social work.

Sociological perspectives and their application to social work are an inherent part of the QAA benchmark statements in the social work degree. In addition, graduates must understand how sociological perspectives can be used to dissect societal and structural influences on human behaviour at individual, group and community levels. This title answers the need for a clear, core text which integrates the areas of sociology and social work. Carefully constructed to be accessible to beginners in the discipline, it links sociological concepts, debates and theories to subject benchmarks, social work occupational standards and codes of practice.

Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their everyday practice.The book outlines the theory that underpins human rights and outlines the ethical debates and dilemmas that frequently surround them. It also provides a practical model that outlines how to embed human rights theory within practice and the professional decision-making process. Drawing extensively on real-life case examples, the book includes chapters on rights-based work with different client groups including offenders, people with intellectual disabilities, immigrants and refugees, and children and families.This important book will be a useful source of guidance and advice for professionals working across the human services, including those in social care, health and justice settings.

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.) impact on gender relations. This major text by a leading writer in the field seeks to develop a new framework for feminist social work that takes on board postmodernist arguments to do with difference and power yet retains a commitment to collective solidarity and social change. As such, it will be essential reading for students, educators and practitioners alike in social work.

This essential text provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research and places them firmly in the context of social work practice.

Sociology and Social Work: Perspectives and Problems focuses on the relationship between sociology and social work, providing a sociological understanding of the problems social workers face. This book begins with an introduction to sociology and social work, followed by a discussion on the nature of a sociological perspective. The sociological approach to family and kinship, analysis of the community, social stratification, and social deviance are also elaborated. This text emphasizes child rearing, language, and social class, including childhood as a preparation for class membership and changes in the stratification system. The social functions of social work in relation to social control and social change are likewise reviewed. This compilation concludes with a review of the professionalization and organizational context of social work and problems arising from the nature of social work and sociology. This publication is a good reference for students and researchers interested in the perspectives and problems related to sociology and social work.