Governmentality and the politicisation of social work in China (Record no. 131603)
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| International Standard Serial Number | 0045-3102 |
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| Classification number | Journals |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yip, Ngai Ming |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wu, Ying |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huang, Ronggui |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Leung, Terry Tse Fong |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Governmentality and the politicisation of social work in China |
| Medium | Journal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | British Journal of Social Work |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | Journal article |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | <p>British Journal of Social Work Vol. 42 no. 6 (Sept. 2012), p. 1039-1059</p> <p>Available in library. See journal shelves.</p> <p>Available online.</p> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This paper examines, from the governmentality perspective, how social work contributes to the recent political mission of the Chinese party state in constructing a harmonious society. A political rationality was constructed in response to new social and political challenges, and a new problematic of government was created, which portrayed personal failings as obstacles to social harmony. A humanistic idiom of ‘person-centredness’ was unprecedentedly employed in political discourse connected with the newly crafted government programmes for consolidating social harmony, in which social work was identified as a significant agent. From the governmentality point of view, social work is an appropriate technology of government. With rich knowledge in personal psychological functioning and sophisticated techniques in fostering interpersonal relationship, social work fits neatly into the prevailing problematic of personal failings. However, a clearly humanistic and liberal undertone of social work practice has posed a potential threat to the Chinese party state, in its capability to manipulate social work to its own advantages. Our initial findings point to the difficulties of an overarching control. Yet it requires more sophisticated analysis to conclude whether social work will eventually be co-opted into the authoritative control system, or whether the socialist regulatory machine will be encroached on by social work ideology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political sociology |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | China |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social work |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs065">http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs065</a> |
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| Electronic publication | Electronic publication | 08/08/2023 | 08/08/2023 | 08/08/2023 | Article |