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This article explores how social workers in South Africa (where social work is regulated by law), and Uganda (where social work is not professionally regulated), draw on the premises that social work is a human rights profession embedded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, their respective countries' constitutions, and developmental social work to claim their role in promoting social and economic equality. The case studies from both South Africa and Uganda show that developmental social work includes social, economic and environmental development activities and that social work can become a significant role player in promoting social and economic equality through its commitment to social justice and human rights.

Adapting social work techniques to the preparation of a legal suit can serve as a mechanism for client advocacy and contribute to social change

While the social impact of the social economy is clearly understood and welcomed by Asian governments, the sector's contribution towards national measures of Gross Domestic Product operates along indistinct lines, and is often undervalued. Jared Tham considers the terminological definition for the future purpose of measuring and establishing its economic value.

Differences in social solidarity among Chinese in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have been identified from two linked studies. Significant differences emerged between the two Chinese communities. Notably, respondents in Hong Kong reported a higher sense of belonging to their community, greater engagement with the provision of care for others and made a greater contribution to the lives of others than did UK Chinese respondents. Consideration about construction and delivery of social services is discussed.

This report, a review of the output of the first year's work of the project, examines the objective of extending social protection coverage in the country.

The paper is written with a degree of irony: it treats a sociological approach as if it were a client presenting itself for psychoanalysis, and argues that using Melanie Klein's developmental theory the approach can be seen as a manic psychosis - a defence against entering the depressive position. It is suggested that sociologists find it difficult to recognise the limitations of their discipline - the depressive position - one reason being that we do not actually exercise power over anybody; social constructionism enables us to convince ourselves that the opposite is true, that we know everything about how people become what they are, that we do not have to take account of other disciplines or sciences, but we can explain everything. The paper ends by suggesting that its own argument can be treated as a psychoanalytic version of a manic psychosis and that a non-psychotic theory is one which knows its own limitations.

In diesem Beitrag wird die zentrale Prämisse des Sozialen Konstruktionismus kritisiert, dass nämlich Personen und Gruppen ihre Überzeugungen frei konstruieren und dass diese Überzeugungen "lokale Wahrheiten" sind, die von Außenstehenden akzeptiert werden müssen bzw. die nicht anhand externer Kriterien evaluiert werden können. Ich versuche zu zeigen, dass das Ausschalten von Wahrheitsansprüchen alle Überzeugungen beliebig macht und die Bedeutsamkeit von Fehlern übergeht. Hieraus resultiert, dass Überzeugungen geglaubt wird, die de facto falsch und gefährlich sind. Und es führt zu einem dogmatischem Kult gegenüber divergierenden sozialen Gruppen, die beliebige Glaubenssysteme unterhalten und jegliche Kritik oder Verbesserungsmöglichkeit prinzipiell zurückweisen. Die hieraus erwachsende soziale Fragmentierung verhindert wechselseitiges Verstehen und Kommunikation. Obwohl der Soziale Konstruktionismus für sich beansprucht, radikal anti-modernistisch bzw. anti-kapitalistisch zu sein, reflektieren die soziale Fragmentierung und das unkritische Denken, die aus ihm hervorgehen, genau die Praktiken derjenigen Kapitalisten, die für ihr eigenes Interesse arbeiten, sich nicht um Gemeinschaftsbelange kümmern und die faktischen Evidenzen der negativen Effekte ausblenden, die aus dem Kapitalismus für die Umwelt, die Gesundheit und die Gesellschaft erwachsen. Tatsächliche Gemeinschaft und Verstehen benötigen, dies versuche ich zu verdeutlichen, die Akzeptanz "modernistischer" Wissenschaftsprinzipien, die auch erlauben, gefährdende Praxen zu identifizieren und zu kritisieren und soziale Reformen zu gestalten.