Hledají sociální pracovníci kolektivní identitu?

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Title in English Do Social Workers Seek for their Collective Identity?
Authors

RŮŽIČKOVÁ Daniela MUSIL Libor

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální práce/ Sociálna práca
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Management and administrative
Keywords social workers; collective identity
Description The article is devoted to the question: Do social workers search for their collective identity in the Czech society? Based on the interviews with social workers, the authors argue for the hypothesis that some social workers would like to substitute qualified social work focused on clients for archaic, chair-borne social work. They do not strive to reach this goal via comprehensive collective action of the whole group of social workers and prefer to implement it as members of diverse partial groupings specialized on work with specific groups of clients. The authors believe that there is an analogy between social workers half-hearted approach to comprehensive collective action as well as their tendency to implement one goal separately as members of partial groupings on the one hand and the Lyotard thesis that groups tend to be partial and provisional in the post-modern situation on the other hand. Based on this interpretation, they argue for promoting collective activities of partial and specialized groups that implement the idea of qualified social work focused on clients by their different and specific ways.
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