Practising Social Work Sociologically

Social Work has a wonderful history of engagement with creative ideas and imagination. We need more of this now. Inequality, poverty, lack of access to employment and affordable housing, and a tightening welfare system test conventional social work approaches. The speed and scale of the challenges we face demand we come back to these approaches with urgency and enthusiasm. Practising Social Work Sociologically presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly changing modern world.  By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon. Dunk-West & Verity expertly stitch together examples of academic frameworks that locate sociology as an indispensable social work art and science. A sociological perspective is a crucial foundation for practice and an essential sensibility to put the 'social' back in to 'social work'.