SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT ›› 2022, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (5): 36-46.

• SHEHUI GONGZUO • Previous Articles    

Research on Social Workers’ Environmental Consciousness from the Perspective of Green Social Work

FENG Boya1,2   

  1. 1. School of Law, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510520, China;
    2. Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, 407224, China
  • Received:2022-02-19 Published:2022-09-21

Abstract: Scholars in China gradually pay attention to the normative research on green social work, but there is a lack of empirical research on social workers’ environmental consciousness. This study adopts the method of purposive sampling, and selects 12 employees from different levels and positions of community stations in the core area and suburbs of A city for semi-structured interviews. Constructing a green social work perspective environmental consciousness research framework to thematically analyze the interviewed texts, we found that social workers focus on the main line of government-oriented community-level environmental tasks, balance the environmental work roles of assisting government and residents, blur their own responsibilities in environmental work, and empirically think about socio-ecological environmental relationships and destructurally look at environmental rights. The challenges faced by the localization development of green social work include: buyers dominate the focus of work, social workers lack self-reflection, and education circles and associations lack corresponding education content.

Key words: green social work, social workers, environmental consciousness

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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