1st Edition
The Personal and the Political (RLE Social Theory) Social Work and Political Action
By Paul Halmos
Copyright 1979
206 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
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Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos tries to resolve a dilemma which many social workers experience acutely – the conflict between a desire to help those in need and a fear that, by doing... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Change-Agent 3. The Personal and the Political 4. The Democratic Constitution and the Politicization of the Professional Role 5. The Reaction of the Training Institutions for Personal Service Professionals 6. The Role Incompatibilities of the Personal and the Political 7. Symbiosis of the Personal and the Political 8. Equilibrium as a Model of Sociological Thought and as a Moral Precept
Biography
Paul Halmos
