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Restoring Sociality: Key Issues of Social Work in Response to COVID-19

ZHENG Guanghuai, MENG Xiangzhe, LIU Jie   

  1. School of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, China
  • Received:2021-01-13 Online:2021-03-15 Published:2021-03-29

Abstract: Lack of sociality is an important issue that cannot be ignored in the development of social work in contemporary China and social work shows the tradition of restoring sociality when participating in public health or other emergencies. This article systematically sorts out the activities of social work teams and agencies during the epidemic to discuss the key issues of social work restoringsociality, and then further discusses the long-term development of social work during and in the post-epidemic era. The study found that in the face of the epidemic, the social work profession shows the possibility of restoring sociality in terms of rebuilding community resilience, activating social bonds, providing social support, and making disadvantaged groups visible, and it also devotes itself to social recovery and reconstruction after the epidemic. Nevertheless, in terms of professional status, institutional structure and state-social relationship, social work is faced with fundamental challenges in restoring sociality, and it also encounters the limitations brought by the strong state mobilization. As a society-oriented profession, social work should be devoted to changing the current system and social structures by providing social services.

Key words: COVID-19, public health emergency, social work, sociality

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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