Social work : the social organisation of an invisible trade

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Social work : the social organisation of an invisible trade

Andrew Pithouse

(Cardiff papers in qualitative research)

Ashgate, c1998

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-200)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work sets out to shed sociological light upon the realm of day-to-day child care practice. It offers no conclusions other than demonstrating that the "invisible" world of practice cannot be readily understood or changed unless grasped through an interactionist sociology.

Table of Contents

  • The area office - boundaries and identities in an occupational world
  • making social work visible: official indices and false trails
  • issues of visibility and colleague relationships
  • supervisory relations and the discreet art of assessment
  • the client - common sense theory and everyday practice
  • telling the case - social work made visible
  • end note - looking to the future
  • methodological appendix.

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