Simpson / Price Transforming Society 2e

Connecting Sociology to Social Change TBC

ISBN: 978-1-4473-5607-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Social work and welfare services are being transformed in the wake of political and economic upheaval and increasing social inequality. This fully updated text enables students to relate sociology to daily lives and shows how structural factors impact upon social work service users and professionals.

The book examines key themes including social exclusion and poverty, work, relationships, consumption and community and social capital. It examines their relevance for social work practice, particularly in children and families, mental health, disability and older people.

Featuring an expanded discussion of social class, the book sets social work practice in a clear radical tradition as an antidote to the increasingly individualised direction taken in the UK. Providing essential material for students of social work, social care, sociology and social policy, the text includes:

• self-directed activities;

• thinking points;

• fully updated case studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Graeme

Price, Vicky

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Social Work and the Poor

Social Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty

Social Work’s Enduring Tensions

Part 2: Production

Theories of Work and Society

Work, Inequality, Poverty and Social Work

Part 3: Reproduction

Theoretical Concepts: Family, Gender Discourse and ‘The Next Generation’

Social Work and Reproduction: Regulation and Family Life

Part 4: Consumption

New Forms of Relations and Inequality

Social Work: The Power of Consumption and the Creation of Customers

Part 5: Community & Social Capital

Changing Landscapes: Theoretical Approaches to Community & Social Capital

Social Work, Social Capital and Community

Part 6: Transforming Society? Social Work and Sociology

Using Sociology to Inform Practice

Contradictions and Change?

Über Autor(innen)

Vicky Price is a former social worker and has been a member of the Downs Syndrome Association for 22 years.

Graeme Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Wolverhampton, after spending 18 years in childcare practice.