Social workers as willful subjects.
How does social workers' agency come about amid the structural constraints they face in their everyday practice? Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a social services department in Israel, this article offers insights into social workers' agentic performances. Fieldwork lasted four and a half months...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Work Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 761 - 779 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2023
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