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Informationen zum Autor Timo Harrikari is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is current President of the Finnish National University Network for Social Work (Sosnet) and a member of several national boards related to social work discipline, teaching and practice. Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala is Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has been a member of several international research groups, and co-author of many books based on comparative empirical analyses. Klappentext Using strong theoretical discourse, alongside new empirical research within a Scandinavian context, this cutting-edge book calls for a new theoretical paradigm to enable us to better understand the shape of the world we inhabit and to translate this understanding into the domain of social work. Zusammenfassung Using strong theoretical discourse, alongside new empirical research within a Scandinavian context, this cutting-edge book calls for a new theoretical paradigm to enable us to better understand the shape of the world we inhabit and to translate this understanding into the domain of social work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: ‘There is an individual person in a situation’ Chapter 3: Modernity and social transformation revisited Chapter 4: Social Work: Pioneers, theories, mandates Chapter 5: Towards compressed modernity? Chapter 6: Global and local: sketching conceptualisations of the ‘glocal’ Chapter 7: Glocal Social Work: new emphasis, new directions? Index
