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Autor/inn/en | Sicora, Alessandro; Citroni, Giulio |
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Titel | One, not one, or one hundred thousand? - voices of social workers in international comparison. |
Quelle | In: European journal of social work, 24 (2021) 1, S. 60-70
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Beigaben | Tabellen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1369-1457; 1468-2664 |
Schlagwörter | Empirische Untersuchung; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Fachzeitschrift; Politik; Professionalisierung; Soziale Arbeit; Berufsverband; Europa |
Abstract | This article focuses on features of contemporary professional debates and reactions of social workers to social policy and reforms in five European countries (Italy, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, United Kingdom) and in the five so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). It considers these features as they appear in different national arenas, for instance professional bodies, associations and journals/newsletters specialised in social work. A questionnaire submitted to experts in the ten countries guided both the data collection and the qualitative review of the literature and grey literature (internet, official documents, etc.). The findings highlight the diversity of the countries and the extent to which social work has developed in them as a professional community. There appears to be a link between the formal structure of the profession and the level of the debate undertaken in this occupational group. Some of the so-called BRICS countries have only recently started to define a specific role for social workers in the implementation of social policies. In contrast, the other five countries have a stronger tradition of social work. Four of them are Southern European and Mediterranean (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Turkey), while only the UK represents a different European history and development. |
Erfasst von | Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin |
Update | 2022/2 |