Trends in the Development of Social Work: Postmodern Ideas and Prospects

- Savelchuk, Iryna (orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-4548), Bybyk, Daria (orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-8503), Zhytynska, Mariia (orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-790X), Ivzhenko, Inna (orcid.org/0000-0003-2224-3292), Mikheiva, Oksana (orcid.org/0000-0002-8358-3840) and Kunytsia, Tetiana (orcid.org/0000-0002-4084-3219) (2021) Trends in the Development of Social Work: Postmodern Ideas and Prospects Postmodern Openings, 3 (S1) (12). pp. 143-154. ISSN 2068-0236

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Abstract

The main tendencies of social work from the standpoint of postmodernist theory are considered in this article. It is determined that postmodernism is characterized by: the production of a cult of individual independence, a philosophical vision of real life as a theatre of the absurd, where emphasis is placed on the realities of real life, collective subconscious, interweaving of different styles, significant parody and irony of social processes. It has been established that social work in postmodernism is due to the growing need for a critical understanding of the crisis state of modern society and viewing relations with the state, the market, users of services and society. Social work in the postmodern period is accompanied by a number of social challenges, among which we consider the psychological distress of citizens, cultural competence and virtualization of the individual. The philosophy of postmodernism is based on the relativity and absence of reality, which is often replaced by virtuality, in which people spend a lot of their time, which raises debates about whether a virtual personality can be considered a personality. The main problem of information socialization of the individual is the problem of readiness and ability of man in such a world to approach a more humane understanding of social phenomena. The study highlights the hierarchy of social work and identifies its postmodern transformations.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	theories of social work, social reality, postmodern society, neoliberal tendencies, social virtualization.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 304 Social questions. Social practice. Cultural practice. Way of life (Lebensweise)
Divisions:	Institute of Problems on Education > Laboratory of Social Pedagogy
Depositing User:	ст.наук.сп Т.Ю. Куниця
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2022 18:31
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2022 18:31
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/730784

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