Social Working: An Ethnography of Front-Line Practice

by Gerald A.J. de Montigny

Book Overview

In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and sensitive analysis of how social workers in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077269
• ISBN13: 9780802077264
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher