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Constructing women in child protection work
Author(s) -
Scourfield J.B.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00189.x
Subject(s) - ethnography , child protection , social work , work (physics) , reading (process) , key (lock) , sociology , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , public relations , medicine , nursing , engineering , political science , computer science , computer security , mechanical engineering , anthropology , law
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of the occupational culture of a social work team in the UK. It is a discussion of some key aspects of social workers’ construction of women as clients. Data were collected from observation of routine case talk, reading of case files and in‐depth interviews with social workers. The conclusion of the research is that three defining discourses can be identified in the culture of the social work office: women as oppressed, women as responsible for protection, and women as making choices.