Does Social Work Ignore Socio-economic Class? An Exploratory Analysis of Selected Literature

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK
C. Hyde
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ABSTRACT Social work espouses a commitment to social justice, including advocating on behalf of economically disenfranchised populations. This article explores the question of whether this commitment is reflected in selected leading social work journals. A keyword search in Social Work abstracts, a content analysis of three core social work journals, and a secondary thematic analysis of articles in those journals were conducted. The keyword analysis focused on a comparison of class and non-class related article keywords in refereed articles (N = 17,725) from 2006–2015. The content analysis examined 713 referred articles that addressed class-specific content between 2011–2015 from Journal of Social Work Education, Social Work, and Research on Social Work Practice. These same articles were subject to a secondary thematic analysis. Keyword findings indicate that non-class content receives substantially more attention than class-specific content does. Among content that is class-specific, the focus is overwhelmingly on “professional” status. Other aspects of class identity, context, or practice interventions are minimally covered. Based on this study, it appears that at least three of the discipline’s leading journals neglect socio-economic class content to the detriment of practitioners, students, clients and constituents.
社会工作忽视社会经济阶层吗?文学选集探析
摘要社会工作支持对社会正义的承诺,包括代表经济上被剥夺权利的人口进行宣传。本文探讨了这一承诺是否反映在选定的主流社会工作期刊上的问题。在社会工作摘要中进行了关键词搜索,对三种核心社会工作期刊进行了内容分析,并对这些期刊上的文章进行了二次主题分析。关键词分析侧重于比较2006-2015年被引用文章中与类和非类相关的文章关键词(N=17725)。内容分析调查了《社会工作教育杂志》、《社会工作》和《社会工作实践研究》2011年至2015年间713篇涉及特定班级内容的参考文章。对这些文章进行了二次专题分析。关键词调查结果表明,非课堂内容比特定课堂内容受到的关注要多得多。在特定于班级的内容中,绝大多数都集中在“专业”地位上。阶级认同、背景或实践干预的其他方面被最低限度地涵盖。根据这项研究,似乎至少有三家该学科的主要期刊忽视了社会经济阶层的内容,损害了从业者、学生、客户和选民的利益。
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3.20
自引率
8.30%
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14
期刊介绍: The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.
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