Understanding agency: Social welfare and change

✍ Scribed by Liz Jeffery

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 137
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Using student-friendly features such as case studies and a glossary, this textbook provides an introduction to the concept of agency and how it can usefully inform social welfare practice. It considers how agency and power inter-relate and how it can inform new ways of thinking about the individual and society. Tracing the origins of agency and exploring the contributions of key thinkers from sociological and social policy perspectives, the book demonstrates a model of achievable change and in doing so represents an optimistic view on social work's potential to contribute to this. It is essential reading for students and professionals training in social welfare, social work and education.

✦ Table of Contents

Understanding agency
Contents
List of practice examples
Glossary of terms
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A theoretical introduction
Social workers and service users
Service users as co-producers of services
Agency and structure: individuals in society
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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