By Kenneth McLaughlin
This unique and stimulating e-book examines modern concerns in social paintings, fairly exploring the politicisation of the occupation from the Seventies onwards. Detailing the broader social and political impacts at the improvement of social paintings, the ebook argues that underlying a lot social idea and perform is a pessimistic and degraded view of humanity. the writer discusses various components of social paintings on the subject of this lowered view of the human topic, exploring the increase of the idea that of abuse, the focal point on person vulnerability and the phobia of the opposite, in addition to the hazard to civil liberties and privateness that has inspired adjustments in psychological healthiness laws and the advent of the Social Care Register.The booklet highlights the necessity for a brand new method of social paintings that has a extra positive view of either contributors and society, and in their capability to beat difficulties. it truly is crucial studying for college kids of sociology, politics and social paintings and for these all for social coverage and social care perform.
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This differs from Singh’s (1996) focus on oppression as the ‘denial’ of difference. It would, after all, be foolish to deny that children are not different to adults. In these readings oppression is expanded from earlier notions where it meant the systematic denial of democratic rights to certain sections of society (for example, women and black people), to include interpersonal cases of abuse. It can also, as in the case of children, also confuse what can be a natural power imbalance, children are dependent, with a social differential.
It would, after all, be foolish to deny that children are not different to adults. In these readings oppression is expanded from earlier notions where it meant the systematic denial of democratic rights to certain sections of society (for example, women and black people), to include interpersonal cases of abuse. It can also, as in the case of children, also confuse what can be a natural power imbalance, children are dependent, with a social differential. This concern with ‘minimising the power differences in society’ (Dalrymple and Burke, 1995, p 3) is presented, not as a reaction to criticisms of anti-racist practice, but as a radical measure that moved ‘from the narrow, exclusive focus on racial oppression to a broader, more inclusive understanding of the links between various forms and 39 Social work, politics and society expressions of oppression’ (Macey and Moxon, 1996, p 309).
In this struggle the social workers were seen as part of the state machinery. In analysing this, Bryant feels that it was the miners’ collective strength and ability to define the terms of the strike that led to social workers being viewed with suspicion; ‘External organisations were defined and evaluated within the context of the conflict with the government – they were either for or against the miners’ (1973, p 169). Such a polarisation meant that there was little room for manoeuvre, or as Bryant puts it, no ‘subtle distinction in position’ (1973, p 169).
