Social Work: The Social Organisation of an Invisible Trade: Second Edition (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Pithouse, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138342777 ISBN 13: 9781138342774

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

First published in 1998, this book sets out to shed sociological light upon the much under-researched realm of day-to-day child care practice. The text broke new ground when first published in 1987 and there have been few, if any, similar books that adopt an ethnographic approach to statutory child care practice. A second edition would still 'speak' to this rarely analysed occupational world. However, it would enjoy greater resonance when up-dated with practitioner viewpoints on the extent to which the findings remain pertinent today - which is likely to be the case. The book offers no conclusions other than it demonstrates that the 'invisible' world of practice cannot be readily understood or changed unless grasped through an interactionist sociology. The book is aimed at a social work/social welfare market as well as a sociology of profession/organization readership.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138342777
• ISBN 13: 9781138342774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206