Trends in the Development of Social Work: Postmodern Ideas and Prospects

Iryna Savelchuk (), Daria Bybyk (), Mariia Zhytynska (), Inna Ivzhenko (), Oksana Mikheiva () and Tetiana Kunytsia ()
Additional contact information
Iryna Savelchuk: Professor, Doctor of Science in Education, Department of theory and technology of Social Work, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Daria Bybyk: PhD in Social Work, Senior researcher of Laboratory of Social Pedagogy and Social Work, Institute of Educational Problems of National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Mariia Zhytynska: PhD, Senior Lecturer of Department of theory and technology of Social Work, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Inna Ivzhenko: Associate Professor, PhD, Department of theory and technology of Social Work, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Oksana Mikheiva: Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Social Pedagogy, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Tetiana Kunytsia: PhD, Senior researcher of Laboratory of Social Pedagogy and Social Work, Institute of Educational Problems of National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Postmodern Openings, 2021, vol. 12, issue 3Sup1, 143-154

Abstract: The main tendencies of social work from the standpoint of postmodernist theory are considered in this article. It is determined that postmodernism is characterized by: the production of a cult of individual independence, a philosophical vision of real life as a theatre of the absurd, where emphasis is placed on the realities of real life, collective subconscious, interweaving of different styles, significant parody and irony of social processes. It has been established that social work in postmodernism is due to the growing need for a critical understanding of the crisis state of modern society and viewing relations with the state, the market, users of services and society. Social work in the postmodern period is accompanied by a number of social challenges, among which we consider the psychological distress of citizens, cultural competence and virtualization of the individual. The philosophy of postmodernism is based on the relativity and absence of reality, which is often replaced by virtuality, in which people spend a lot of their time, which raises debates about whether a virtual personality can be considered a personality. The main problem of information socialization of the individual is the problem of readiness and ability of man in such a world to approach a more humane understanding of social phenomena. The study highlights the hierarchy of social work and identifies its postmodern transformations.

Keywords: theories of social work; social reality; postmodern society; neoliberal tendencies; social virtualization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 O0 Y3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/po/article/view/4265 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:12:y:2021:i:3sup1:p:143-154

DOI: 10.18662/po/12.3Sup1/356

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Postmodern Openings from Editura Lumen, Department of Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Antonio Sandu ().