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Social agency and symbolic structure. The case of social work practice in Poland

Publication date: 28.06.2019

Issues in Social Work, 2019, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 101 - 110

https://doi.org/10.4467/24496138ZPS.19.007.11084

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Andrzej Niesporek
Silesia University, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-8163 Orcid
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Tomasz Warczok
University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-3031 Orcid
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Social agency and symbolic structure. The case of social work practice in Poland

Abstract

Changes in Poland, being a result of transformation of economic system open the necessity of formation new social policy and new social assistance system, including professional social work. Professional character of social workers job is being constructed not only by law or institutional regulations, but through everyday activities undertaken by social workers. One of the consequences of these practices is the strategy of informal evaluation and classification of welfare clients. To understand the social workers daily professional practice is important to identify strategies, arguments and language codes lying behind them. We try to interpret this kind of social workers’ activity refer to different theoretical perspectives.

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Information: Issues in Social Work, 2019, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 101 - 110

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Social agency and symbolic structure. The case of social work practice in Poland

English:

Social agency and symbolic structure. The case of social work practice in Poland

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-8163

Andrzej Niesporek
Silesia University, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-8163 Orcid
All publications →

Silesia University, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-3031

Tomasz Warczok
University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-3031 Orcid
All publications →

University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 28.06.2019

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