Timo Harrikari, Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala

Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using strong theoretical discourse, alongside new empirical research within a Scandinavian context, this cutting-edge book calls for a new theoretical paradigm to enable us to better understand the shape of the world we inhabit and to translate this understanding into the domain of social work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138225541
• ISBN-10: 1138225541
• Artikelnr.: 53629704

Autorenporträt

Timo Harrikari is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is current President of the Finnish National University Network for Social Work (Sosnet) and a member of several national boards related to social work discipline, teaching and practice. Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala is Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has been a member of several international research groups, and co-author of many books based on comparative empirical analyses.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: 'There is an individual person in a situation'
Chapter 3: Modernity and social transformation revisited
Chapter 4: Social Work: Pioneers, theories, mandates
Chapter 5: Towards compressed modernity?
Chapter 6: Global and local: sketching conceptualisations of the 'glocal'
Chapter 7: Glocal Social Work: new emphasis, new directions?
Index