Abstracts
Abstract
The paper contrasts the conference focus on the democratic renewal of social practices, an internal process particular to the European and North-American contexts, with the development of social practices in China, where both external and internal forces influence social workers’ dealings with democratization and indigenization of well-established Western concepts. The goals of the authors are to problematize the questions of democratic renewal and to promote international communication among social practitioners.
Résumé
Ce manuscrit établit un contraste entre le renouvellement démocratique des pratiques sociales tel qu’il est discuté dans les contextes européen et nord-américain et le développement des pratiques sociales en Chine, où des forces tant externes qu’internes influencent les conditions de travail des acteurs sociaux. D’une part, l’intervention sociale est limitée par la lenteur du processus de démocratisation et, d’autre part, les praticiens chinois sont aux prises avec l’« indigénisation » de concepts bien établis en Occident. Les auteurs tentent de problématiser les questions du renouvellement démocratique et de promouvoir la communication entre les travailleurs sociaux de différentes parties du monde.
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