How to break through the marginalization of traditional social work

How to break through the marginalization of traditional social work

The change of social work is deeply rooted in the change of social structure and social relations. The arrival of post-industrial society has not only changed the fundamental contradiction of society, but also greatly improved people's actual demand level, and humanized factors have been improved more and more. "People-oriented" has become a goal of the whole society, and helping others with social equity and social welfare as the value orientation is becoming more and more important. Daniel bell pointed out the changes of post-industrial society in his book The Coming of Post-industrial Society. He believes that the change of social structure is the economic transformation and the reorganization of professional system. The internal change of contemporary western social structure is manifested in the transformation from product production economy to service economy, and the post-industrial society is based on service industry. With the change of industrial structure, the main contradiction of society has changed, that is, from the contradiction between man and nature, man and things to the contradiction between people, which reveals that the handling of social relations has changed from the relationship between subject and object to the relationship between subjects. The reflection of this change in Maslow's needs level is that people's needs are constantly divorced from the lower material level and developing towards people's internal value needs and spiritual needs. As a service industry to meet these needs, it has surpassed the traditional tertiary industry to meet the material needs of daily life and become a professional, public welfare (mutual benefit), diversified and special social welfare service industry with people's spiritual enjoyment as its content. The coexistence of public welfare and commerce makes social work service different from the service industry that meets the material needs of daily life, and also different from the traditional pure public welfare service. These changes provide a platform for the emergence of new fields of social work. With the improvement of people's demand level, organizations that provide social welfare demand also show a diversified trend. Welfare pluralism also provides a theoretical source of legitimacy for the development of social work. Welfare pluralism is a model that emphasizes the provision of social welfare in the form of mixed welfare, that is, national welfare can be provided by different social subjects, including government, non-profit organizations, enterprises and individuals. In fact, the multiple mixed welfare provision model provides theoretical support for the positive welfare view, which emphasizes that citizens have both welfare rights and welfare obligations. Based on the dual social structure of China and the lack of social security, the mixed welfare model still conforms to the reality of China, which is why it also provides strong support for the in-depth development of social work in China.