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Back to Social Work Classic Study: Exploring the Theoretical Connotation and Methodology Development of “Person in Environment”

Yang Weiwei   

  1. Social and Public Administration School, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
  • Received:2017-09-12 Online:2018-03-15 Published:2018-03-20
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Abstract: In this paper, using the method of knowledge archeology, we detailed the most influential concept of social work for a hundred years, namely, the theoretical connotation of "person in the environment" and the substantive method texts for their expansion. It is found that tension exists between "mechanics" and "ethics", reflecting the gap in the approaches based on two purposes. Using Weber's research method of ideal type, we can see that the contradiction between epistemology and methodology in the two kinds of purports, which is rooted in the subjective value and objective validity inherent in the ideal type of "person in the environment". Contemporary Western social work academia attempts to reconcile the subjective value and objective validity of "person in the environment" by practicing the theory of practice, that is, the practical responsibility of social work under the concept of pragmatism. Faced with the current situation of China's social work disciplines increasingly entering a new stage, the author thinks that we should return to the classic text of Western social work and summarize the experience gained and lost in the development of Western social work. Based on that, Chinese social work could pursue its innovation, thus injecting Chinese wisdom into the knowledge of worldwide social work.

Key words: person in the environment (PIE), mechanics, ethics, ideal type, subjective value, objective validity

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  • C916
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