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Marketization and the “De-socialization” of Social Work: Based on the Analysis of American Social Work

LI Wei, YANG Caiyun   

  1. Department of Social Work, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225002, China;Department of Sociology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China
  • Received:2018-12-30 Online:2019-09-15 Published:2019-09-23

Abstract: The marketization of social work includes quasi-market and pure-market. The former is government purchase of services, while the latter means private practice. The marketization of social work became increasingly deeper during the neo-liberalism era since the end of 1970s, which resulted in practice activities focused on individual therapy and abandoning social reform, that is the so called the "de-socialization" of social work. Specifically speaking, in quasi-market model, in order to acquire buyer(government)'s service contract, seller(social organization) had to obey the will of government, and gave up the social reform action opposed by government. In pure market situation, driven by economic interest, social workers were addicted to psychotherapy needed by wealthy class, and initiatively stayed away from the social reform that served grass-root class. In order to stick to the "social" mission of social work, professional circle must rethink the market-oriented mode profoundly. In terms of Chinese social work, "partial marketization" is suitable for the current situation.

Key words: social work, marketization, government purchase of services, private practice, de-socialization

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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