Social Work and Sociology
Discussing the relationship between social work and sociology, this book explores how the two have become more and more divided, moving from one single discipline, to two separate, but related, fields.
Both sociology and social work focus on social problems, social structure, social integration and how individuals respond to and live within cultural and structural constraints. Today, both disciplines face the possibility of losing some of their most important characteristics to individualising trends, the disappearance of the importance of the social and pressure towards solely evidence-based knowledge.
In addition to casting light on areas that have been in the shadows of the mainstream narrative, the contributions to this book will raise new questions, contributing to continuing discussions between and within each discipline.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Nordic Social Work Research.
Irene Levin is a Professor in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo University College, Norway.
Marit Haldar is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo University College, Norway.
Aurlie Picot is a Fellow in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo University College, Norway.
Social Work and Sociology
Historical and contemporary perspectives
Edited by
Irene Levin, Marit Haldar and Aurlie Picot
First published 2016
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Contents
Irene Levin, Marit Haldar and Aurlie Picot
Ian Shaw
Michael Seltzer and Marit Haldar
Siri Fjeldheim, Irene Levin and Eivind Engebretsen
Kjeld Hgsbro
Werner Schirmer and Dimitris Michailakis
Elizabeth Frost
Sheila Fish and Mark Hardy
Jorid Krane Hanssen, Gunn Strand Hutchinson, Rolv Lyngstad and Johans Tveit Sandvin
The chapters in this book were originally published in Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Social work and sociology: historical separation and current challenges
Irene Levin, Marit Haldar and Aurlie Picot
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S1S6
Chapter 1
Sociological social workers: a history of the present?
Ian Shaw
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S7S24
Chapter 2
The other Chicago school a sociological tradition expropriated and erased
Michael Seltzer and Marit Haldar
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S25S41
Chapter 3
The theoretical foundation of social case work
Siri Fjeldheim, Irene Levin and Eivind Engebretsen
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S42S55
Chapter 4
Evidence and research designs in applied sociology and social work research
Kjeld Hgsbro
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S56S70
Chapter 5
The help system and its reflection theory: a sociological observation of social work
Werner Schirmer and Dimitris Michailakis
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S71S84
Chapter 6
Why social work and sociology need psychosocial theory
Elizabeth Frost
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S85S97
Chapter 7
Complex issues, complex solutions: applying complexity theory in social work practice
Sheila Fish and Mark Hardy
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S98S114
Chapter 8
What happens to the social in social work?
Jorid Krane Hanssen, Gunn Strand Hutchinson, Rolv Lyngstad and Johans Tveit Sandvin
Nordic Social Work Research, volume 5, supplement 1 (September 2015) pp. S115S126
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Eivind Engebretsen is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
Sheila Fish is Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, London, UK.
Siri Fjeldheim is a Fellow in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
Elizabeth Frost is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Marit Haldar is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo University College, Norway.
Jorid Krane Hanssen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nordland, Bod, Norway.
Mark Hardy is Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, UK.
Kjeld Hgsbro is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Gunn Strand Hutchinson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nordland, Bod, Norway.
Irene Levin is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo University College, Norway.
