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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.
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.
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?