Practising Social Work Sociologically

This timely and much-needed textbook presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners, and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly evolving modern world. Traditional social work approaches are often ill-equipped to take into account the emerging social change resulting from technological change, globalisation, mobilities, and environmental change.

By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, Practising Social Work Sociologically draws on concepts from a range of disciplines, recognising that we are collective thinkers and actors, and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon.

Whether taking a social work theory module or preparing for placement, this sociological perspective provides a crucial foundation for practice and puts the 'social' back into 'social work'.