The Embeddedness of Professional Social Work into the Power Relations of Urban Community: A case study of government service purchase

本文以一个政府购买服务项目的实践为个案,揭示了专业社工以政府购买服务的机制嵌入原有的行政社会工作之后,对街区原有治理主体形成的适应和挑战的过程。本文指出,专业社工被吸纳到街道的权力网络过程中产生了外部服务行政化、内部治理官僚化和专业建制化的过程。复杂的街区权力关系限制了专业社工深度嵌入社区治理,这使得表面光鲜的社会工作在街区权力体系中逐渐式微,失去影响。作者认为,要挽回式微的专业权力,就要有专业社会工作的批判意识,策略性地与街区政府建立既独立又合作的关系,社会工作者还需要重拾资源公平分配的价值观,与原有的本土社会工作结盟,这样才能推动街区社会治理的民主化变革。

With the development of professional social work, embedded development is becoming the strategy of China's professional social work. However, this optimistic anticipation encounters countless challenges in reality. This paper chooses a typical case of government service purchase to show the process of adaption and challenges to the local social work in the community, after professional social workers embed government purchase into the original administrative social work. The paper also points out the process in which professional social workers are becoming more administrative in external serving, more bureaucratic in internal control and more of licentiation after being introduced into the power network of the community. Moreover, the complexity of power relations in a community limits the depth of social workers' involvement in the community governance, which lessens the impact of the superficially brilliant social work in a community. Finally, the authors argue that professional social workers need proper value in the equity of allocating resources and need alliance with local social workers, which could push the democratic reform of community governance.

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