Critical realism for welfare professions
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Critical realism for welfare professions
(Routledge advances in social work)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism. This is the first book to present and discuss how critical realism can contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work. As a theory of science that includes normative theories and emphasises method-pluralism and holistic thinking, critical realism is applicable to a world of poverty, global health problems and social conflicts.
Contributors to this book present a realist perspective on social work. The connection between critical realism and social work is illuminated through a theoretical introduction in Part 1. Part 2 covers the specific topics of normativity, interdisciplinarity and education. Part 3 presents practical/empirical examples from contemporary research in social work, using different approaches based on critical realism.
As critical realism can contribute to a useful and realistic approach to research and practice, this book is essential reading for professionals, academics and students working in different fields of social work and health care.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Editors' preface
Contributors
PART I
Chapter 1. Toward an in-depth understanding of professional social and welfare work (Monica Kjorstad and May-Britt Solem)
Chapter 2. Basic concepts in critical realism (Monica Kjorstad and May-Britt Solem)
PART II
Chapter 3. Normativity in the social sciences and professions (Andrew Sayer)
Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary work in a critical realist perspective (Berth Danermark)
Chapter 5. Learning to absent the absent: critical realism and social work education (Stanley Houston and Lorna Montgomery)
PART III
Chapter 6. Understanding the dynamics between professional social and welfare work and social politics: a critical realist perspective (Monica Kjorstad)
Chapter 7. Encounters uncovered: implementing critical realism and domain theory in ethnographic research with young masculinities (Harry Lunabba)
Chapter 8. Parenting stress and coping practices in a critical realist perspective (May-Britt Solem)
Chapter 9. Positions of young people in child welfare: "TMSA" in research practice (Elina Pekkarinen)
PART IV
Chapter 10. Theory and practice as a dynamic relation (Monica Kjorstad and May-Britt Solem)
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