TY - CHAP

T1 - "Community" as a Future Perspective of European Social Work?

AU - Sandermann, Philipp

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - “Community” is a relevant topic to both practitioners and researchers of social work throughout the world. As Dixon et al. (2005: 4) state, “the acknowledgement of ‘community’ as an essential component within the formation of individual identity and as the means for citizens to achieve improved levels of personal well-being” represents “a broad consensus amongst community theorists, activists and workers.” However, what exactly those theorists, activists and workers who share this consensus reify as “acknowledgement”, and moreover, what they reify as “community”, varies considerably across diverse schools of thought, practical fields, cultural frameworks, and analytical perspectives (Fritz and Rhéaume, 2014)....

AB - “Community” is a relevant topic to both practitioners and researchers of social work throughout the world. As Dixon et al. (2005: 4) state, “the acknowledgement of ‘community’ as an essential component within the formation of individual identity and as the means for citizens to achieve improved levels of personal well-being” represents “a broad consensus amongst community theorists, activists and workers.” However, what exactly those theorists, activists and workers who share this consensus reify as “acknowledgement”, and moreover, what they reify as “community”, varies considerably across diverse schools of thought, practical fields, cultural frameworks, and analytical perspectives (Fritz and Rhéaume, 2014)....

KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics

UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvscxsrf

UR - http://d-nb.info/1070697370

U2 - 10.2307/j.ctvscxsrf.25

DO - 10.2307/j.ctvscxsrf.25

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-8474-0147-6

SP - 419

EP - 442

BT - European Social Work - A Compendium

A2 - Kessl, Fabian

A2 - Lorenz, Walter

A2 - Otto, Hans-Uwe

A2 - White, Sue

PB - Verlag Babara Budrich

CY - Opladen; Berlin

ER -