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British Journal of Social Work (2002) 32, 1-15
© 2002 British Association of Social Workers

Reflections on Gender, Knowledge and Values in Social Work

Jonathan B. Scourfield

Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK. scourfield{at}cf.ac.uk

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This paper is a discussion of the application of social work knowledge and values in practice. It draws on ethnographic research in a child-care team in the UK which set out to explore the construction of clients as gendered. It is argued that social workers' accounts of practice reveal tensions between an emphasis on clients as individuals and an emphasis on social collectivity. These tensions could be seen as inherent in social work knowledge and values. There are various implications of these tensions between the individual and the social, but there is a particular focus in the paper on the implications for questions of gender. It concludes with some ideas for a theory for practice that would better equip social workers for the complex task of negotiating the gender tensions raised in the paper.


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