The Theory and Practice of Critical Social Work Focusing on Oppression

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530734
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: TAGAWA Kayoko (沖田佳代子) 愛知県立大学, 教育福祉学部, 教授 (10269095)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: クリティカル・ソーシャルワーク / ソーシャルワーク理論 / 抑圧 / 社会正義 / 構造分析 / ポストモダニズム / ポスト構造主義 / 主体性の回復

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The principles of business management have risen to prominence, and the supply of services has become increasingly market-focused, treating citizens as service users, consumers and clients. Under such circumstances, responsibilities for social justice and equality in social work have declined. Mainstream social work has been more recently fixated on objectives like maintaining and conforming to the existing order rather than reforming the system, and it rarely adopts viewpoints that serve to reduce the various problems created by distorting the social structure.
This was the context under which the ideas of critical social work were tested from the three following perspectives: (1) a structural analysis that describes the broad political understanding of individual experiences of oppression; (2) the goal of achieving social justice that overcomes exploitation and removes dominance and oppression; and (3) the ideas of critical theory, post-modernism and post-structuralism.

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