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Образы социальной работы: социокультурная рефлексия
The text analyzes the representations of social work as a professional activity in the all-Russian issues of the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - an edition expressing the official point of view; Since it is the RF Government that patronizes and forms social work as a professional activity, its point of view should be neglected least of all. For the analysis, federal issues for 2014 were taken-the completed year closest to the time when Russia's confrontation with the "rest of the civilized world" and mutual closure in the symbolic space had not yet developed, which is important, since the reception and development of social work in Russia Passes in the context of globalizing trends, the inclusion of Russian society in the global world. The selection of articles was made in the search system "Integrum"; Key words with the operator "or" were included in the search query: sotsial'n*, rabot*, reabilit*, podderzh*, pomoshch*, obsluzh*, sluzhb*, zashchit*. The material of the selected 63 articles is presented with a semantic analysis of two main conversations: about events and laws.
The general aim of this thesis is to explore the gendered and classed nature of social work and social welfare in Russia to show how social policy can be a part of and reinforce marginalisation. The overall research question is in what ways class and gender are constructed in Russian social work practice and welfare rhetoric through Soviet legacies and contemporary challenges? In addition, which actors contribute to the constitution of social work values and how this value system affects the agency of the clients? This study focuses on contradictory ideologies that are shaped in discursive formations of social policy, social work training and practice. It is a qualitative study, containing fi ve papers looking at this issue from three different perspectives: policy and institutions, culture and discourse, actors and identity. The data collection was arranged as a purposive–iterative process. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with social work practitioners, administrators and clients, participant observations in social services and analysis of documents of various kinds.
The article is concerned with results of content analysis of textbooks for high school in the area of social and human sciences. The author uses the typology of values introduced by S. Schwartz which consists of two value axes — “conservation — openness to change” and “selfassertion — caring about people and nature” — and describes values that underlie each subject area and then compares these values with results of mass surveys of the values of Russians.