Social Work in a Risk Society: Social and Political Perspectives

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the Scene -- Dimensions of Risk Society -- Re-thinking Social Work in a Risk Society -- The Governance of Risk -- Aims of the Book -- Glossary of Key Concepts -- 1 Social Work, Risk Society and Modernity -- Introduction -- What Is Modernity? -- Theorising Modernity -- Modernity as a Way of Life -- Morality and Modernity -- Reflexive Modernity and Risk Society -- Reflexive Selves and Social Systems -- Neo-liberalism - the Politics of Risk Society -- Regulation and Security in Social Work -- The Rationality of Regulation -- The Rationality of Security -- Conclusion -- 2 Risk, Regulation and Neo-liberalism -- Introduction -- Mapping the Social: Social Work and State Welfare -- The Crisis of the Keynesian Welfare State -- The Rise of Neo-liberal Welfare -- Neo-liberalism and Empowerment -- Neo-liberal Regulatory Regimes -- Privatised Risk, Social Exclusion and the Urban Underclass -- Risk Regulation and Social Governance -- Social Work as Regulated -- Social Work as Regulating -- Risk Management and Risk Assessment -- Conclusion -- 3 Security, Trust and Care Pathways -- Introduction -- Social Work and Ontological Security -- The Logic of Security in Social Work -- Security as a Metaphor for Social Work -- Social Work, Security and the Home -- Security, Social Proximity and Residential Care -- Pin-down as Insecurity and Social Abuse -- Life Planning and Reflexive Governance -- The Growth of Care Planning -- Trust and Social Work -- Coding Trust in Social Work -- Trust and Confidence in Social Work -- Trust and Voluntary Welfare Agencies -- Conclusion -- 4 Direct Work, Knowledge and Intervention -- Introduction -- Adventures on the Road to Understanding -- Risk, Short-termism and the Empirical Movement -- What You See Is Not What You Get -- Heuristics and Social Work Practice.

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Social work in a risk society: social and political perspectives

Webb, Stephen A.

Webb, Stephen A.

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