• ISBN13: 9788126939824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: December 5, 2023
• Pages: 180
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 350 grams
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Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of “social” and “work.” Social work, like all other professions, will undergo dramatic changes as apps and algorithms overtake human operations. The failure of social sciences in general and social work in particular warrants thoughtful innovations that ensure sustainable services.

The author believes altruism is professionally unattainable until social work is completely re-founded. The Future of Social Work discusses seven new algorithms of social practice that challenge the existing model of social work education and offers a new perspective for a radical transformation of the entire system. The book warns against academic complacency and shows how this radical transformation is necessary in order to prevent inevitable alienation, avarice and anger in a techno-scientific world.

Brij Mohanis Dean Emeritus, School of Social Work, Louisiana State University, USA.

• Foreword by Peter Herrmann xi
• Prologue xv
• 1 Poverty, War and Welfare 1
• 2 The World of Welfare 25
• 3 Plateaus and Platitudes of Practice 34
• 4 Archaeology of Social Practice 45
• 5 Transforming Social Work 53
• 6 Hermeneutics of Help 65
• 7 Seven Pillars of Social Practice 94
• 8 Environmental Justice: A Practice Model 104
• 9 Freedom and Vocabularies of Change 118
• 10 The End of Social Work: Epilogue 138
• Afterword 142
• Bibliography 144
• Index 153
• About the Author and the Foreword Writer 157
• By the Same Author 158