Searching for Poverty-aware Social Work

Discourse Analysis of Job Descriptions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2115233
AutoresMichal Krumer-Nevo, Michal Krumer‐nevo (0000-0003-0813-5439, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Idit Weiss-Gal, Idit Weiss‐Gal (0000-0002-6317-8872, Tel Aviv University), Lia Levin (0000-0002-4337-6265, Tel Aviv University)
Año2011
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas313-332
Fecha de publicación2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s004727941000053x
OpenAlexW2037710068
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas22

This article aims to enrich the current limited body of knowledge regarding social work professional discourse. More specifically, it seeks to examine the extent and ways in which the social work intra-profession discourse, as it is manifested in formal job descriptions of social workers in Israel, reflects the commitment to working with people living in poverty and to confronting poverty. We provide a brief review of the concept of professional discourse and the role of formal job descriptions in this discourse in general, and in Israel in particular. 'Poverty-aware social work' is then conceptualised. Against this background, we analysed 75 job descriptions in order to ascertain whether, and in what ways, references to poverty appear in defining client populations, in directions for assessing their situation, and in defining the goals and methods of professional intervention. The research findings reflect a textual silence in relation to poverty issues in job descriptions. The analysis of poverty-related sub-topics in these documents suggests that job descriptions offer, and simultaneously reproduce a conservative and a-political perspective on poverty and on social work practice with people living in poverty

Aesthetics · Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Intervention (counseling) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Silence · Sociology · Work (physics) · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work