Originally published in 1983 Social Work Values is a sustained enquiry about the present situation of social work. It describes the treatment of social work values in the social work literature and in research and pursues three distinct avenues towards an improvement on the present unsatisfactory treatment. First the book introduces and encourages more philosophical reflection on the customary ‘lists’ of social work values. Second it investigates three social work controversies: between the Charity Organisation Society and ‘the Socialists’; between the Functionalist and the Diagnostic schools of social work; and between ‘radical’ Marxists and ‘the rest’. Third and finally it explores the treatment of ‘value’ and ‘values’ in economics sociology ordinary usage and philosophy in order to establish the distinctive elements to which the term ‘values’ is applied. |Social Work Values An Enquiry | Sociology
