Lordship and bondage in the dialectics of social work: regulation and professional autonomy

IF 1.4 Q2 SOCIAL WORK Critical and Radical Social Work Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1332/20498608y2023d000000006
Murray K. Simpson, Mark Smith, Maura Daly
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This article provides an innovative reading of the relationship between social work and the regulatory bodies mandated to register and regulate it, which has hitherto remained largely untheorised. It achieves this by utilising Hegel’s illustrative tale of ‘lord and bondsman’. This narrative outlines the development of consciousness through dialectical struggle. We argue that the relationship of domination and servitude that has developed between the profession and the regulators is incapable of delivering a satisfactory self-consciousness for either. For the social work profession, consciousness is limited to an enforced ‘being-for’ the regulatory bodies, which appropriate the ends of practice through the labour of the profession. For both to achieve full self-consciousness, each must transcend itself and the other through a dialectical movement in which each is simultaneously ‘negated’ and ‘preserved’. The article highlights ways in which social work can more courageously address its own historical development within such a struggle.
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社会工作辩证法中的主宰与束缚:规范与专业自主
这篇文章对社会工作和监管机构之间的关系提供了一种创新的解读,这些监管机构被授权注册和监管社会工作,迄今为止,这种关系在很大程度上仍未理论化。它通过利用黑格尔的“领主和奴隶”的说明性故事来实现这一点。这种叙述概括了意识在辩证斗争中的发展。我们认为,在专业人士和监管者之间形成的支配和奴役关系,无法为任何一方提供令人满意的自我意识。对于社会工作专业来说,意识仅限于强制性的“为监管机构而存在”,监管机构通过专业的劳动来适当地实现实践的目的。为了达到充分的自我意识,每一方都必须通过辩证的运动来超越自己和对方,在辩证的运动中,每一方都同时被“否定”和“保留”。这篇文章强调了社会工作可以在这样的斗争中更勇敢地解决自己的历史发展的方法。
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