The Contextual Expression and Understanding of the Meaning of"Social Work"
The establishment of Social Work Department has brought new theoretical context and prac-tical room to China's"social work".The comprehensive understanding of social work in different contexts will not only help deepen the understanding of social work departments and their functions,but also help social work in the new era better serve the needs of national and social governance in the process of Chinese path to modernization.At present,"professional social work"originated from the western theoretical con-text and practice,"localized social work"introduced and practiced by the social work education community in Chinese Mainland,and"big social work"used in the policy context and practice in Chinese Mainland are the three main forms of context used in the field of social work in China and form the basis of Chinese so-cial work discourse expression system,each having its own specific connotation and denotation.In differ-ent discourse contexts,there exist differences in the connotation and denotation,value and function for the same discourse of"social work".However,they are closely connected at the same time,maintaining the core content and attributes of social work.Sorting out and studying the differences and common core of so-cial work in different contexts is an important foundation and path for understanding the connotation and denotation of social work in the Ministry of"Social Work".
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