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Tables of Contents for Social Work and Community in a Private World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
PART I: PRIVATE WORLD AND PUBLIC LIFE
1
64
Social Work in a Private World
3
20
A Private New World
3
11
Private Individuals
4
2
Private Spaces
6
4
Private Institutions
10
4
Globalization: Economic Distancing from the Social
14
3
The Prospect for Social Change
17
3
Conclusion
20
3
Building Public Life: Theory and Practice
23
20
Debunking Myths about Public Life
25
4
Whose Public Sphere and Public Good?
27
2
New Social Movement Theory and Contemporary Public Life
29
4
Postmodern Theory and the Public Good
33
4
Universalizing the Particular
37
2
Conclusion
39
4
A Framework for Contextualizing Social Work Practice
43
22
An Integrated Practice
44
2
Beyond Ecological and Empowerment Theory
46
3
Putting Macro Contextualization at the Base of Social Work
49
2
Politicized Social Work
51
2
The Role of Social Change Ideology
53
3
Collectivization and Contextualization
56
2
Community and Contextualized Practice
58
2
Conclusion: Linking Class, Culture, and Community
60
5
PART II: CONTEXTUALIZING SOCIAL WORK: RESEARCH, POLICY, PRACTICE, AND THE SOCIAL SERVICE WORKPLACE
65
120
Research: Contextualizing and Politicizing Social Work
67
24
Critiques of Social Work Research
69
2
The Feminist Critique of Research
70
1
The Political Dimensions of Social Work Research
71
2
Some Tenets of Politicized Social Work Research
72
1
Social Work Research And The Public Good
73
4
Skills Implications: Varying Forms of Social Work Research
77
11
Community Needs Assessments
77
2
Ethnographic Methodologies
79
2
Historical Research
81
2
Action Research
83
5
Conclusion
88
3
Social Policy: The Ideology and Politics of the Public Good
91
26
Competing Definitions of the Public Good
92
12
The Liberal Hegemony and the Public Good, 1935--1980
93
3
The Left and the Welfare State
96
1
Neoliberalism
97
2
Neoconservatives and the Common Good
99
1
Neoconservative Social Policy
100
2
Communitarianism: A Different Way?
102
2
The Political Economy of the 1990s
104
6
The Global Economy
104
1
The Global Economy and the Neoconservative Public Good
105
3
Social Policy, the State, and the Corporate Good
108
2
Skills Implications: Social Policy as Social Work Practice
110
3
Policy Analysis
110
1
Skills in Policy Activism
111
2
Conclusion
113
4
Macro Practice: Putting Social Change and Public Life Back into Social Work Practice
117
32
The Ebb and Flow of Macro Practice in Social Work
118
8
Alinsky and the Industrial Areas Foundation
122
3
Community Organization and Professionalism
125
1
Criticisms of Community Organization
126
6
Social Work Education and Community Organization
130
2
A More Inclusive Practice
132
4
Visions of Social and Political Change
136
3
Politicizing Social Work Practice
139
1
Skills Implications for Politicized Social Work
140
6
Conclusion
146
3
Empowering the Social Service Workplace: Democracy and Organizational Change
149
26
Organizational Change and the Public Good
149
6
Deindustrializing Social Work
151
4
Organizational Reform
155
12
Unions and the Social Service Workplace
156
5
Toward a New Conception of Workplace Democracy
161
6
Alternative Organizational Forms
167
4
Skills Implications for Organizational Change
171
1
Conclusion
172
3
Conclusion
175
10
Social Dislocation, The Global Economy, and the Public Good
176
3
Getting Back out in Public
179
6
References
185
16
Index
201