Graham B Mcbeath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1061887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham B Mcbeath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbeath |
| SIGNATURE | MCBEATH G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Nature of Future Worlds? - Considerations of Virtuality and Utopias
It has been a widespread belief that computers can create viable utopias, design the future and plan and co-ordinate things such that the world can be born anew. The exponential increase in computing power has allowed for interaction in imaginary places – utopian spaces – and the endless re-configuration of those places. There are then good reasons to make links between the realm of the virtual and the creation of utopian and future worlds. We ex…
Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity
In this article we argue that current reform proposals coming from Robert Pinker and others are challenging the universalist premises of generic social work. Pinker et al. argue that social work should, for the sake of efficiency and performance, be a connected set of specialist activities. This 'determinate dispersal' which we recognise as falling within the remit of postmodern strategies, we contrast with the far more libertarian ideas of the n…
A Political Critique of Kantian Ethics in Social Work
This paper addresses the Kantian theory of the subject which is found in contemporary social work discourse on ethics and values. It is argued here that the Kantian idea of persons as (i) rational, (ii) autonomous, and (iii) ends-in-themselves is wholly inadequate to the social work doctrine of ‘respect for persons’. To show this, we counterpose a Foucauldian view of history, moral codes and theory of the person, and the meaning this can have in …
A Political Critique of Kantian Ethics in Social Work
This paper addresses the Kantian theory of the subject which is found in contemporary social work discourse on ethics and values. It is argued here that the Kantian idea of persons as (i) rational, (ii) autonomous, and (iii) ends-in-themselves is wholly inadequate to the social work doctrine of ‘respect for persons’. To show this, we counterpose a Foucauldian view of history, moral codes and theory of the person, and the meaning this can have in …
Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity
In this article we argue that current reform proposals coming from Robert Pinker and others are challenging the universalist premises of generic social work. Pinker et al. argue that social work should, for the sake of efficiency and performance, be a connected set of specialist activities. This 'determinate dispersal' which we recognise as falling within the remit of postmodern strategies, we contrast with the far more libertarian ideas of the n…
A Political Critique of Kantian Ethics in Social Work
This paper addresses the Kantian theory of the subject which is found in contemporary social work discourse on ethics and values. It is argued here that the Kantian idea of persons as (i) rational, (ii) autonomous, and (iii) ends-in-themselves is wholly inadequate to the social work doctrine of ‘respect for persons’. To show this, we counterpose a Foucauldian view of history, moral codes and theory of the person, and the meaning this can have in …
Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity
In this article we argue that current reform proposals coming from Robert Pinker and others are challenging the universalist premises of generic social work. Pinker et al. argue that social work should, for the sake of efficiency and performance, be a connected set of specialist activities. This 'determinate dispersal' which we recognise as falling within the remit of postmodern strategies, we contrast with the far more libertarian ideas of the n…
On the Nature of Future Worlds? - Considerations of Virtuality and Utopias
It has been a widespread belief that computers can create viable utopias, design the future and plan and co-ordinate things such that the world can be born anew. The exponential increase in computing power has allowed for interaction in imaginary places – utopian spaces – and the endless re-configuration of those places. There are then good reasons to make links between the realm of the virtual and the creation of utopian and future worlds. We ex…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Power (physics) (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (2 works)