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Social work and the community : a critical context for practice / Paul Stepney and Keith Popple.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: 201 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781403991263:
  • 140399126X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.3
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context.

CW017, CW717, CW758, CW768

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-191) and index.

Introduction to the idea of community -- The contribution of community studies and increased state intervention in communities and neighbourhoods -- Rethinking community : globalisation, neo-liberalism and inequality -- Community as an area of social policy -- Community as an organising focus for social policy -- Community care : promoting an empowering service or using the market to contain costs? -- Remaking community : communitarianism and the modernisation of the welfare state -- Social work and the community : from theory to practice -- The theory and practice of community of social work -- Community work and community action -- Future possibilities for community-based social work in an international context.

20.54

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