Social Control of Deviance and Knowledge in Social Work from an Anti-oppressive Perspective

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2021-03-29 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2021.1905316
Daniele Scarscelli
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ABSTRACT This paper will examine the relationship between social control of deviance, ethical principles and social work. I will address this issue by adopting a specific social work theoretical perspective, that of “critical social work”. In this article a specific phase of social workers’ control of deviance in social work will be examined: the phase in which they collect information through specific fact-finding modalities, in order to decide whether, and in what way, social services will intervene. I chose a specific aspect of social work with involuntary clients to develop my analysis: child protection. I will organize my analysis in two parts. In the first part I will tackle the issue of social control in social work. I will subsequently analyze two theoretical paradigms (Positivism and Constructionism) within which child neglect and abuse are conceptualized and operationalized. In the second part, I will examine a case study, the story of a drug-addicted mother who had one of her children removed, with the aim of highlighting how the paradigm that guides fact-finding activity on a given phenomenon can influence the forms in which social control is exercised, favoring or hindering anti-oppressive practices. The analysis of mother’s story shows how the positivist framework applied by the social workers in the decision to remove her child, affected the form in which power and social control was exercised, favoring the transition from protective power to oppressive power. The categorization of clients, aimed at the identification of the risks children run in their family contexts, may reduce social workers’ activity to pure control of family life in an “antagonistic role” to their clients.
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反压迫视角下社会工作偏差与知识的社会控制
本文将探讨社会越轨行为控制、伦理原则与社会工作之间的关系。我将采用一个特定的社会工作理论视角,即“批判社会工作”来解决这个问题。本文将考察社会工作者在社会工作中控制偏差的一个特定阶段:他们通过特定的事实调查模式收集信息的阶段,以决定社会服务是否以及以何种方式进行干预。我选择了非自愿客户社会工作的一个特定方面来进行分析:儿童保护。我将把我的分析分为两部分。在第一部分中,我将探讨社会工作中的社会控制问题。随后,我将分析两种理论范式(实证主义和建构主义),在这两种理论范式中,儿童忽视和虐待被概念化和操作化。在第二部分,我将研究一个案例研究,一个吸毒成瘾的母亲的故事,她的一个孩子被移走了,目的是强调指导对特定现象进行事实调查活动的范式如何影响社会控制的形式,支持或阻碍反压迫的做法。通过对母亲故事的分析,可以看出社会工作者在决定带走孩子的过程中运用的实证主义框架如何影响权力和社会控制的行使形式,有利于从保护权力向压迫权力的转变。客户的分类,旨在识别儿童在其家庭环境中运行的风险,可能会减少社会工作者的活动,以“对抗角色”对客户的家庭生活进行纯粹的控制。
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期刊介绍: The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.
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