{"product_id":"social-working-9780802077264","title":"Social Working","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an `institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and sensitive analysis of how social workers in their everyday practice make sense from a confusing collection of case details to create organizationally defined problems and cases. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe Montigny uses the tension between his experience of growing up 'working class' and the difficult process of becoming a social worker to explore the practical activities professionals use to secure organizational power and authority over clients. This tension has forced him to confront the dilemma of how to stand on the side of clients when standing inside professional and organizational realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \/ Acknowledgments * Introduction* Ideological Practice** Constructing a Professional Standpoint* Professional Discursive Powers* Ad Hoc Science: Constructing Child Abuse* Producing Good Sense* Producing Reports* Child Protection Work* Producing a File* The Report Goes to Court* The Hearing* Conclusion: Dirty Social Work Notes \/ References \/ Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768056774999,"sku":"9780802077264","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802077264.jpg?v=1758716102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-working-9780802077264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}