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Published in 1996, this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies
a qualitative sociology of childhood, spoken repeatedly through
children's voices. After a long period of dormancy, interest in the
sociology of childhood became a focus of attention and scholarly
interest. Developments in practice by professionals working and
learning in the fields of welfare, education, and youth and
community studies have been paralleled by the emergence of
specialist courses within sociology degrees. Yet the challenges
raised by the sociology of childhood remain marginalised within the
social sciences more generally. A Case of Neglect? provides an
accessible reader and review of the field. Heard wherever possible
through children's and young people's voices, it provides a
penetrating insight into their understandings and experiences of
their own and adults' worlds. It also provides a readable and
absorbing review of qualitative applications in the sociology of
childhood, and a counter to the common reliance on evidence derived
from quantitative approaches. The fieldwork applications range
across the often hidden worlds of children's and young people's
involvement in prostitution, their experience of abuse, black
children's experiences of social services, children's school
cultures, naturist children and childlessness. Always arresting and
sometimes poignant, A Case of Neglect? works towards a sociology
which is both of and for childhood. This book was originally
published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research
series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey.
The series publishes original sociological research that reflects
the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at
Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical
research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and
texts discussing methodological developments and issues.
The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work
and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where
public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While
such countries have traditionally been associated with Scandinavian
countries in particular, and North-Western Europe more generally,
there are other countries where the public spend on welfare is
relatively high. The various contributors in this book explore and
exemplify ways in which social work and research are distinctive
for advanced welfare states. This involves exploring their
connection to professional identities, histories and welfare
systems; their associations with academic, theoretical and cultural
traditions of collaboration between academic and social work
practice, and the distinctive links with community, national
policy, governmentality and agency, with respect to forms of
knowledge, discourses and conception of social problems. Written by
contributors who have experience of living and working in Belgium,
Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Singapore and the UK, this book speaks
throughout about problems, methods, systems and ideas in language
that is readily transferable and transcends national boundaries of
thought and social work practice. It will be read and understood by
social work students across Europe.
The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work
and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where
public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While
such countries have traditionally been associated with Scandinavian
countries in particular, and North-Western Europe more generally,
there are other countries where the public spend on welfare is
relatively high. The various contributors in this book explore and
exemplify ways in which social work and research are distinctive
for advanced welfare states. This involves exploring their
connection to professional identities, histories and welfare
systems; their associations with academic, theoretical and cultural
traditions of collaboration between academic and social work
practice, and the distinctive links with community, national
policy, governmentality and agency, with respect to forms of
knowledge, discourses and conception of social problems. Written by
contributors who have experience of living and working in Belgium,
Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Singapore and the UK, this book speaks
throughout about problems, methods, systems and ideas in language
that is readily transferable and transcends national boundaries of
thought and social work practice. It will be read and understood by
social work students across Europe.
Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's
analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research
relationship in social work - a theme that has been the focus of
much of his writing over his career. Introduced with a new essay
that reflects on the 'serendipity, misfires and occasional
patterns' in his work, the book is grouped into five sections. It
covers the following themes, each of which is fully contextualized:
c Perspectives on Social Work Research c Evaluation c Qualitative
Social Work Research c Practice and Research c The Receiving End:
Service Users and Research This book has much to say about the
relationship between social work practice and research and is a
must-read for any social work student or practitioner.
Published in 1996, this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies
a qualitative sociology of childhood, spoken repeatedly through
children's voices. After a long period of dormancy, interest in the
sociology of childhood became a focus of attention and scholarly
interest. Developments in practice by professionals working and
learning in the fields of welfare, education, and youth and
community studies have been paralleled by the emergence of
specialist courses within sociology degrees. Yet the challenges
raised by the sociology of childhood remain marginalised within the
social sciences more generally. A Case of Neglect? provides an
accessible reader and review of the field. Heard wherever possible
through children's and young people's voices, it provides a
penetrating insight into their understandings and experiences of
their own and adults' worlds. It also provides a readable and
absorbing review of qualitative applications in the sociology of
childhood, and a counter to the common reliance on evidence derived
from quantitative approaches. The fieldwork applications range
across the often hidden worlds of children's and young people's
involvement in prostitution, their experience of abuse, black
children's experiences of social services, children's school
cultures, naturist children and childlessness. Always arresting and
sometimes poignant, A Case of Neglect? works towards a sociology
which is both of and for childhood. This book was originally
published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research
series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey.
The series publishes original sociological research that reflects
the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at
Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical
research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and
texts discussing methodological developments and issues.
Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's
analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research
relationship in social work - a theme that has been the focus of
much of his writing over his career. Introduced with a new essay
that reflects on the 'serendipity, misfires and occasional
patterns' in his work, the book is grouped into five sections. It
covers the following themes, each of which is fully contextualized:
c Perspectives on Social Work Research c Evaluation c Qualitative
Social Work Research c Practice and Research c The Receiving End:
Service Users and Research This book has much to say about the
relationship between social work practice and research and is a
must-read for any social work student or practitioner.
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