SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT ›› 2020, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (2): 49-57.

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A Paradox of Professional Identity: The Unexpected Consequences of Professional Internship for Social Work Majors: From the Perspective of Sociology of Professions

LI Mianguan1,2, YUE Pengyan3   

  1. 1. Center for Chinese Public Administration Research;
    2. School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
    3. College of Law and Political Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
  • Received:2019-09-04 Online:2020-03-15 Published:2020-04-10

Abstract: It is shown that social work internship has a contradictory effect on students' professional identity: on the one hand, students willingly value social work expertise, while on the other hand, they are reluctant to further engage in the profession. The internship has a distinct impact on students' ideographic and instrumental identity, which can be partially explained by occupational sociology. Expertise of social work shall be accumulated through both classroom education and professional internship. As a prerequisite for future career, social work internship offers real life and relatively restrictive scenario that, through testing and reflection, increases students' recognition. However, weak corporate and clinical autonomy leads to lower occupational autonomy in social work, characterized by "marginal administration" in specific situations in China. The students experiencing "marginal administration" in internship show weakened willingness to engage in social work services.

Key words: social work, professional identity, professional internship, sociology of professions, marginal administration

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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