lezing 1999

Facing up to history – Social work between timeless universalism and contingent particularism

De eerste MKS Lezing werd gehouden op woensdag 18 november 1999 door prof. dr. Walter Lorenz van de University College Cork, Ierland, waarin hij betoogde dat het social work een sociaal mandaat vanuit de samenleving moet krijgen.

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Facing up to history
Social work between timeless universalism and contingent particularism

Reminiscing in social work frequently serves the purpose of measuring the distance we have travelled since the days of the pioneers. We smile benignly at those figures of the distant past to whom we owe our gratitude but whom we have long left behind. Social work usually writes its history as a history of emancipation from pre-modern constraints and paradigms, a history of progress and of the gradual gaining of scientific respectability. This perspective serves to give hope that one day this profession, troubled by its uncertain social and academic status, will take its hard earned place among the ranks of proper professions that have a proper scientific base in proper academic disciplines. Only then will social work be able to claim that it played its part in the advancement of civilization, closing ranks with other professions devoted to the victory of rationality. 

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In het co-referaat van Nora van Riet, Maatschappelijk werk, diversiteit en verschillen, legt zij de analyses en stellingen van Walter Lorenz naast de Nederlandse situatie op twee terreinen: het politieke beleid ten aanzien van diversiteit en verschillen, en het terrein van het maatschappelijk werk.

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