..., and charts the changes in the professional education and training of social workers over the past 40 years. The book also discusses Thatcherism, the professionalisation of social work, and postmodernism. ‘Affirming our Value Base in Social Work and Social Care’ Beresford Peter bureaucracy...

... resulted in a fusion between the state and civil society. Postmodernism has refocused that relationship into a potential fusion with the market. This chapter also discusses how civil society provides an ethical framework for good governance because it represents the active voice of citizenship...

... of ‘difference within difference’ and ‘social regulation’; and looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state....

... Lindenfors P morality ‘science wars’ science background Dannefjord Per on irrationality rationality SHA members’ understanding of Schlieter J Habermas J pseudoscience cultural relativism postmodernism relativism rejection of Gustavsson Stefan Jackelén Antje critical thinking promotion...

..., and relations between government and civil society. The chapter continues by providing discussions on the celebration of networking and how it is connected with theories of postmodernism and post-traditional views. It also presents the definition of ‘governance network’ and ‘network governance’. The bases...

...Tracing the thematization of culture and the body across modern, postmodern, and neomodern sociological thought, this chapter explores the possibility of developing a meaning-centered, strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment, one that approaches body and embodiment as constituting...