20,477
Views
42
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The Social Construction of Social Work Ethics: Politicizing and Broadening the Lens

Pages 32-44 | Published online: 26 May 2010

REFERENCES

  • Abramovitz , M. 1998 . Social work and social reform: An arena of struggle . Social Work , 43 : 512 – 526 .
  • Allen , A. 1996 . “ Foucault on power: A theory for feminists ” . In Feminist interpretations of Michel Foucault , Edited by: Hekman , S. J. 265 – 281 . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press .
  • Aronson , J. and Sammon , S. 2000 . Practice and social service cuts and restructuring: Working with the contradictions of “small victories.” . Canadian Social Work Review , 17 : 167 – 187 .
  • Arribas-Ayllon , M. and Walkerdine , V. 2008 . “ Foucauldian discourse analysis ” . In The Sage handbook of qualitative research in psychology , Edited by: Willig , C. and Stainton-Rogers , W. 91 – 108 . Los Angeles : Sage .
  • Arrington, P. (2008). Stress at work: How do social workers cope? NASW Membership Workforce Study. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers. http://workforce.socialworkers.org/whatsnew/stress.pdf (Accessed: 26 April 2010 ).
  • Baines , D. 2007a . “ Anti-oppressive social work practice: Fighting for space, fighting for change ” . In Doing anti-oppressive practice. Building transformative politicized social work , Edited by: Baines , D. 1 – 30 . Halifax : Fernwood .
  • Baines , D. 2007b . “If you could change one thing”: Restructuring, social workers and social justice practice ” . In Doing anti-oppressive practice. Building transformative politicized social work , Edited by: Baines , D. 83 – 94 . Halifax : Fernwood .
  • Banks , S. 2006 . “ Ethics and values in social work ” . In , 3rd , New York : Palgrave Macmillan .
  • Beck , U. 1992 . Risk society: Towards a new modernity , London : Sage .
  • Chambon , A. S. , Irving , A. and Epstein , L. , eds. 1999 . Reading Foucault for social work , New York : Columbia University Press .
  • Congress , E. P. 2000 . What social workers should know about ethics: Understanding and resolving practice dilemmas . Advances in Social Work , 1 : 1 – 25 .
  • Dean , M. 1994 . “A social structure of many souls”: Moral regulation, government, and self-formation . Canadian Journal of Sociology , 19 : 145 – 168 .
  • Dominelli , L. 1999 . Neo-liberalism, social exclusion and welfare clients in a global economy . International Journal of Social Welfare , 8 : 14 – 22 .
  • Dominelli , L. 2004 . Social work: Theory and practice in a changing profession , Cambridge, , England : Polity Press .
  • Donovan , M. Ethical challenges for social workers working for non-profit and community-based agencies . Paper presented at the annual general meeting and convention of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers . Halifax. May , Nova Scotia .
  • Edelman , M. J. 1988 . Constructing the political spectacle , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Flexner, A. (1915). “Is Social Work a Profession?” Paper presented at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, 581, 584–588, 590. http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/archive/FlexnerISWAP.htm (Accessed: 26 April 2010 ).
  • Fook , J. 2002 . Social work: Critical theory and practice , London : Sage .
  • Ghorayshi , P. 2004 . “ The discourse of globalization and the alleged inevitability of our global future? ” . In Power and resistance , 3rd , Edited by: Samuelson , L. and Antony , W. 201 – 224 . Halifax : Fernwood .
  • Healy , K. 2000 . Social work practices. Contemporary perspectives on change , London : Sage .
  • Higgs , P. 1998 . “ Risk, governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenship ” . In Modernity, medicine and health , Edited by: Scambler , G. and Higgs , P. 176 – 197 . New York : Routledge .
  • Hugman , R. 2005 . New approaches in ethics for the caring professions , New York : Palgrave MacMillan .
  • Irving , A. 1992 . The scientific imperative in Canadian social work: Social work and social welfare research in Canada, 1897–1945 . Canadian Social Work Review , 1 : 9 – 27 .
  • Jenson , L. Ethical challenges in the field of child welfare . Paper presented at the annual general meeting and convention of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers . Halifax. May , Nova Scotia .
  • Kirby , J. Leveling power: Organizational ethics and you . Paper presented at the annual general meeting and convention of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers . Halifax. May , Nova Scotia .
  • Kondrat , M. E. 2002 . Actor-centred social work: Re-visioning “person-in-environment” through a critical theory lens . Social Work , 47 : 435 – 448 .
  • Kunzel , R. G. 1993 . Fallen women, problem girls: Unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890–1945 , New Haven : Yale University Press .
  • Lonne , B. , McDonald , C. and Fox , T. 2004 . Ethical practice in the contemporary human services . Journal of Social Work , 4 : 345 – 367 .
  • Mattison , M. 2000 . Ethical decision making: The person in the process . Social Work , 45 : 201 – 212 .
  • Mullaly , B. 2007 . “ The new structural social work ” . In , 3rd , Toronto : Oxford University Press .
  • Orlie , M. A. 1997 . Living ethically, acting politically , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • Parton , N. 1996 . “ Social work, risk and “the blaming system.” . In Social theory, social change and social work , Edited by: Parton , N. 98 – 114 . New York : Routledge .
  • Parton , N. 2000 . Some thoughts on the relationship between theory and practice in and for social work . British Journal of Social Work , 30 : 449 – 463 .
  • Reamer , F. G. 1990 . Ethical dilemmas in social service: A guide for social workers , 2nd , New York : Columbia University Press .
  • Reamer , F. G. 2006 . Ethical standards in social work: A review of the NASW code of ethics , 2nd , Washington, D.C : NASW press .
  • Rice , J. J. and Prince , M. J. 2000 . Changing politics of Canadian social policy , Toronto : University of Toronto Press .
  • Robison , W. and Reeser , L. C. 2000 . Ethical decision making in social work , Toronto : Allyn & Bacon .
  • Rose , N. 1996 . The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government . Economy and Society , 25 : 327 – 356 .
  • Rose , N. and Miller , P. 1992 . Political power beyond the state: Problematics of government . British Journal of Sociology , 43 : 173 – 205 .
  • Rossiter , A. , Prilleltensky , I. and Walsh-Bowers , R. 2000 . “ A postmodern perspective on professional ethics ” . In Practice and research in social work , Edited by: Fawcett , B. , Featherstone , B. , Fook , J. and Rossiter , A. 83 – 103 . New York : Routledge .
  • Ryan , W. 1998 . “ Blaming the victim ” . In Race, class and gender in the United States , 4th , Edited by: Rothenberg , P. S. 519 – 529 . New York : St.Martin's Press .
  • Sherwin , S. 1998 . “ A relational approach to autonomy in health care. In S. Sherwin (Coordinator) ” . In The politics of women's health: Exploring agency and autonomy , 19 – 47 . Philadelphia : Temple University Press .
  • Smith , K. 2007 . “ Social work, restructuring and everyday resistance: “Best practices” gone underground ” . In Doing anti-oppressive practice: Building transformative politicized social work , Edited by: Baines , D. 145 – 159 . Halifax : Fernwood .
  • Struthers , J. 1987 . “Lord give us men”: Women and social work in English Canada, 1918–1953 ” . In The “benevolent” state: The growth of welfare in Canada , Edited by: Moscovitch , A. and Albert , J. 111 – 125 . Toronto : Garamond Press .
  • Tronto , J. C. 2001 . “ Does managing professionals affect professional ethics? Competence, autonomy, and care ” . In Feminists doing ethics , Edited by: DesAutels , P. and Waugh , J. 187 – 202 . New York : Rowman & Littlefield .
  • Walker , M. U. 1998 . Moral understandings: A feminist study in ethics , New York : Routledge .
  • Weinberg , M. 2004a . Pregnant with possibility: Reducing ethical trespasses in social work practice with young single mothers , Toronto : University of Toronto, unpublished doctoral dissertation .
  • Weinberg , M. 2004b . Young single mothers: The work of proving fitness for parenting . Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering, Fall/Winter , 6 : 79 – 89 .
  • Weinberg , M. 2005a . A case for an expanded framework of ethics in practice . Ethics and Behavior , 15 : 327 – 338 .
  • Weinberg, M. (2005b). The mother menagerie: Animal metaphors in the social work relationship with young single mothers. Critical Social Work, 6. http://www.criticalsocialwork.com/units/socialwork/critical.nsf/8c20dad9f1c4be3a85256d6e006d1089/00a98daf7d49029f85256fd700691579? (Accessed: 26 April 2010 ).
  • Weinberg , M. 2006 . Pregnant with possibility: The paradoxes of “help” as anti-oppression and discipline with a young single mother . Families in Society , 87 April-June : 161 – 169 .
  • Weinberg , M. 2007 . “ Ethical “use of self”: The complexity of multiple selves in clinical practice ” . In Revisiting the use of self: Questioning professional identities , Edited by: Mandell , D. 213 – 233 . Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press .
  • Weinberg , M. 2008a . [Structural barriers in social work practice] , Unpublished raw data .
  • Weinberg, M. (2008b). Structural social work: A moral compass for ethics in practice. Critical Social Work, 9. http://www.criticalsocial work.com/units/socialwork/critical.nsf/982f0e5f06b5c9a285256d6e006cff78/3fc 6041e5a0302358525744d0006b1a7? (Accessed: 26 April 2010 ).
  • Weinberg , M. We're all in the same boat: Reasons and solutions for ethical struggles . Paper presented at the annual general meeting and convention of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers . Halifax. May , Nova Scotia .
  • Wenocur , S. and Reisch , M. 1989 . From charity to enterprise: The development of American social work in a market economy , Urbana, IL : University of Illinois .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.