Social Work in a Risk Society Social and

This text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory and taking into account recent changes in social work. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes in the work of theorists such as Beck, Giddens,#xA0;and Rose. It looks at risk, trust, regulation, identity, and governmentality to explore the impact of risk society and neoliberalism on social work.

Stephen Webb is Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Bradford.

Acknowledgements

x

Setting the Scene

1

(1)

Dimensions of Risk Society

2

(2)

Re-thinking Social Work in a Risk Society

4

(1)

The Governance of Risk

4

(4)

Aims of the Book

8

(4)

Glossary of Key Concepts

12

(11)

Social Work, Risk Society and Modernity

23

(26)

Introduction

23

(3)

What Is Modernity?

26

(1)

Theorising Modernity

27

(2)

Modernity as a Way of Life

29

(4)

Morality and Modernity

33

(1)

Reflexive Modernity and Risk Society

34

(1)

Reflexive Selves and Social Systems

35

(3)

Neo-liberalism -- the Politics of Risk Society

38

(1)

Regulation and Security in Social Work

39

(2)

The Rationality of Regulation

41

(1)

The Rationality of Security

42

(5)

Conclusion

47

(2)

Risk, Regulation and Neo-liberalism

49

(30)

Introduction

49

(1)

Mapping the Social: Social Work and State Welfare

50

(2)

The Crisis of the Keynesian Welfare State

52

(1)

The Rise of Neo-liberal Welfare

53

(4)

Neo-liberalism and Empowerment

57

(1)

Neo-liberal Regulatory Regimes

58

(1)

Privatised Risk, Social Exclusion and the Urban Underclass

59

(6)

Risk Regulation and Social Governance

65

(2)

Social Work as Regulated

67

(3)

Social Work as Regulating

70

(1)

Risk Management and Risk Assessment

71

(6)

Conclusion

77

(2)

Security, Trust and Care Pathways

79

(30)

Introduction

79

(1)

Social Work and Ontological Security

79

(4)

The Logic of Security in Social Work

83

(2)

Security as a Metaphor for Social Work

85

(2)

Social Work, Security and the Home

87

(2)

Security, Social Proximity and Residential Care

89

(1)

Pin-down as Insecurity and Social Abuse

90

(4)

Life Planning and Reflexive Governance

94

(2)

The Growth of Care Planning

96

(4)

Trust and Social Work

100

(2)

Coding Trust in Social Work

102

(2)

Trust and Confidence in Social Work

104

(2)

Trust and Voluntary Welfare Agencies

106

(1)

Conclusion

107

(2)

Direct Work, Knowledge and Intervention

109

(32)

Introduction

109

(2)

Adventures on the Road to Understanding

111

(10)

Risk, Short-termism and the Empirical Movement

121

(6)

What You See Is Not What You Get

127

(2)

Heuristics and Social Work Practice

129

(5)

The Rise of Actuarialism in Social Work

134

(5)

Conclusion

139

(2)

Technologies of Care

141

(29)

Introduction

141

(2)

De-skilling Social Work Practice

143

(3)

Care Management

146

(5)

Risk Assessment and Evaluation

151

(3)

Making Risky Decisions

154

(2)

Evidence-based Practice

156

(5)

Decision Pathway Analysis

161

(3)

Networked Information Technologies

164

(4)

Conclusion

168

(2)

Management and Organisation of Social Work

170

(30)

Introduction

170

(2)

New Public Sector Management

172

(3)

Organisational Change in Social Work

175

(3)

Modernisation and Best Value Policy

178

(2)

Performance Management and Audit Culture

180

(7)

Risk Management Policy Making

187

(3)

Wicked Problems, Silo Effects in Social Work

190

(7)

Conclusion

197

(3)

The Practice of Value

200

(35)

Introduction

200

(1)

Putting Values First

201

(2)

The Self and the Good

203

(7)

The Ethics of Care

210

(6)

Ethics of Recognition -- Having a Sense of Ourselves

216

(3)

Virtue Ethics and Good Judgement

219

(2)

Ties that Bind -- Generating Social Capital

221

(7)

Life as a Planned Project

228

(4)

What Is to Be Done?

232

(3)

Bibliography

235

(33)

Index

268

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