%0 Journal Article %T The Social Worker on the Indefinite Cultural Margins %A Flis, Maria %J Issues in Social Work %V 2018 %R 10.4467/24496138ZPS.18.012.10067 %N Volume 23, Issue 3 %P 191-199 %K social worker, cultural margins, familiarity, strangeness, otherness %@ 1507-4285 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-pracy-socjalnej/article/pracownik-socjalny-a-nieoznaczone-marginesy-kulturowe %X In the text at hand, I attempt to illustrate the relationship between the concept of human nature and culturally dominant strategies for constructing the “Other.” More to the point, I explore the resulting new challenges for a social worker – particularly in the context of overcoming “colloquial reason” by disclosing the actual structure underlying the social process. This, in fact, is the task of sociology within which social work has a significant role to play.