Timo Harrikari

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.

This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond’s classical idea of social work, the book seeks to set current societal trends affecting social work into the context of a long historical line, opening spaces for the new debates within the social work discipline as well as proposing and taking some new directions in the current era of compressed modernity. From the viewpoint of social work, there still is an individual in a situation, however, the situation has profoundly changed during the past hundred years. Divided into seven chapters, topics covered include, firstly, the rethinking of Richmond’s original idea, revisiting the modernisation theories and social transformations as well as discussion on the social work theories and mandates according to the chosen classics. Secondly, the book continues with sketching the pillars of compressed modernity and rethinking the global and local relations. During the era of glocalisation, polycentrism, digitalisation and hybridisation, the previous conceptualisations of social theory have to be reconsidered. Finally, a proposal for glocal social work vision is represented by setting questions which should be taken under scrutinity. Academics, researchers, practising social workers and students of social work, as well as of social policy, administration, social law and other social sciences, will find this book to be an essential text for understanding the current societal changes, trends and tendencies. The book provides a lot of information for policymakers and citizens interested in the background knowledge for the contemporary societal situation.

Lastensuojelu on nyky-yhteiskunnassa itsestäänselvyys. Se tarkoittaa lapsen suotuisan kehityksen varmistamista ja hyvinvoinnin edistämistä. Lasten julkisoikeudellinen suojelu on sosiaali- ja kasvatusalan ammattilaisten työtä, jota säädellään lastensuojelulailla. Miten tällaisiin linjauksiin on päädytty? Teos tarkastelee lastensuojelun muutoksia keskiajalta nykypäivään. Se analysoi lastensuojelun yhteiskunnallisten tehtävien, suojeluun johtavien tekijöiden sekä suojelun toteuttamisen muutoksia oikeussääntelyn, lainvalmisteluaineistojen ja aikalaistekstien valossa. Suojelukysymyksen historialliset kerrostumat kytketään niiden ajallispaikallisiin yhteyksiin ja laajempiin yhteiskunnallisen hallinnan tapojen murroksiin. Kyseessä on lasten yhteiskunnallisen suojelutoiminnan kokonaiskuvaus, jollaista ei Suomessa ole kirjoitettu. Teos palvelee yliopisto- ja ammattikorkeakoulutasoista perusopetusta, erityisesti sosiaali-, oikeus- ja kasvatustieteiden aloilla. Tutkimukseen perustuvana tietokirjana sen historiallinen kuvaus palvelee myös lastensuojelusta kiinnostunutta laajaa yleisöä. Timo Harrikari on sosiaalityön professori Tampereen yliopistossa.

This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond’s classical idea of social work, the book seeks to set current societal trends affecting social work into the context of a long historical line, opening spaces for the new debates within the social work discipline as well as proposing and taking some new directions in the current era of compressed modernity. From the viewpoint of social work, there still is an individual in a situation, however, the situation has profoundly changed during the past hundred years. Divided into seven chapters, topics covered include, firstly, the rethinking of Richmond’s original idea, revisiting the modernisation theories and social transformations as well as discussion on the social work theories and mandates according to the chosen classics. Secondly, the book continues with sketching the pillars of compressed modernity and rethinking the global and local relations. During the era of glocalisation, polycentrism, digitalisation and hybridisation, the previous conceptualisations of social theory have to be reconsidered. Finally, a proposal for glocal social work vision is represented by setting questions which should be taken under scrutinity. Academics, researchers, practising social workers and students of social work, as well as of social policy, administration, social law and other social sciences, will find this book to be an essential text for understanding the current societal changes, trends and tendencies. The book provides a lot of information for policymakers and citizens interested in the background knowledge for the contemporary societal situation.

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.

Kirjassa analysoidaan lainsäätämisprosesseja, joissa alaikäisten rikollisuutta koskevat tulkinnat ja käytännöt rakentuvat historiallisessa katsannossa. Lisäksi arvioidaan niitä yhteiskunnallisia tekijöitä, jotka ovat vaikuttaneet tulkintojen ja käytäntöjen muutoksiin. Monitieteinen väitöstutkimus osoittaa, että historialliset ajanjaksot voidaan erottaa toisistaan sen perusteella, millä tavoin alaikäisten rikollisuudesta keskustellaan ja millaisia yhteiskuntapoliittisia strategioita rakennetaan. Esiin nousee myös toistuvia ja pysyviä elementtejä. Niiden tuntemus voi olla merkittävänä tukena tehtäessä alaikäisten rikollisuutta koskevia yhteiskuntapoliittisia linjauksia. Teos soveltuu lapsuutta, nuoruutta ja rikollisuutta koskevan keskustelun, opetuksen ja tutkimuksen perusteokseksi. Se valaisee myös laajasti suomalaisen yhteiskunnallisen lapsuuden ja nuoruuden syntyprosesseja.