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McDonald's Dilemma Of Community Social Work Participation In Community Governance And Its Resolution

Posted on:2021-05-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M K XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2416330620471196Subject:Social work
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With the end of the unit system,China's social governance model has moved to the community system.The community has become an important link in grass-roots social governance,carrying the dual functions of management and service.At the same time,community social work has become a participating force in community governance.Governance plays an important role.This article takes the K community in C city as a case,and aims to observe the mode and development status of social work participation in community governance.Through participatory observation and field interviews with community social workers,it is found that the development of community social work is closely related to the promotion of the government and the service model.For the operation of projects under the protection of the government,the service resources depend on the direct supply of the government.The organization and personnel structure is usually “oneuse and dual-use” with community workers,and there are problems such as blurred identity and weak autonomy.Under the logic of technological governance,administrative-led social worker services show the following characteristics: efficient service goals,standardized management models,programmatic service processes,hierarchical organizational structure,and technical practice models.These core characteristics Consistent with the four dimensions of "efficiency","calculatable","predictable" and "control" of George Ritzer's "Mc Donaldization of Society",community social work has shown a considerable degree in the process of participating in community governance Mc Donald's characteristics.Under the dual background of project system and bureaucracy,community social work has become an important tool for community governance.The service model with efficiency as the service target,technology as the practice method,and quantity as the evaluation index has produced a series of unexpected results.Dual lack of sociality and professionalism,trapped in the quagmire of the game of value rationality and instrumental rationality,excessively pursued its own standardization and normativeness,and gradually lost its independence and independence in the hierarchical organizational structure.Professional practice space.This study uses the concept and theory of Mc Donaldization to explain the "Chinese experience",and attempts to explain the stages and characteristics of the development of social work in Chinese communities.However,on the other hand,quantitative measures for the purpose of efficiency and technical practices for the purpose of control are blurring social work services,ignoring the value rationality of the social work profession.This article interprets the issue of community social work participation in community governance from a critical perspective,and then "sees micro knowledge",based on the development of localization of social work in China,thinking about how social work under the project system should develop? How does social work benefit the entire society while abiding by the "people-oriented" professional ethics.
Keywords/Search Tags:Community social work, McDonaldization, Project system, Technical governance, Linkage between the three communities
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