Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI:10.1177/02610183221101161a

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adults? Finally, in straining to connect with accounts of the origins and forms of the welfare state, Anderson perhaps overplays the importance of sociological theory. Readers whose interest is in child labour will find the insistent theoretical framing and sociological terminology daunting. They may also be sceptical about its value. Surely it is clear without ‘pragmatist field theory’ that an ability to build alliances, to secure support by implicating local agencies in ideas and positions and to network across different elite groups was important in reformers’ success? It would be a shame if a too heavy theoretical touch deterred general readers who would gain from working through this carefully researched book, especially as its implications, spelled out in the closing chapter, provide real food for thought.

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成年人？最后，在努力与福利国家的起源和形式的描述联系起来时，安德森可能夸大了社会学理论的重要性。对童工感兴趣的读者会发现，坚持的理论框架和社会学术语令人望而生畏。他们也可能对其价值持怀疑态度。毫无疑问，如果没有“实用主义领域理论”，建立联盟、通过让地方机构参与思想和立场来获得支持以及跨不同精英群体建立网络的能力对改革者的成功至关重要？如果过于沉重的理论色彩阻止了普通读者阅读这本经过仔细研究的书，那将是一种耻辱，尤其是在最后一章中阐述的它的含义提供了真正的思考。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;