TY  - JOUR
A1  - Aghamiri, Kathrin
A1  - Streck, Rebekka
A1  - Ursula, Unterkofler
ED  - Press, Policy
T1  - Doing relationship while doing social work
JF  - European Social Work Research
N2  - What constitutes social work is a central question in theory building. If social work wants to be more than a model idea, we cannot answer this question without looking at social work practice.
The article presents ‘doing social work’ as an approach to theorising social work through
ethnographic research. In addition to the basic theoretical and methodological characteristics of the approach, we present four modes of doing social work, which have been developed based on a comparison of different ethnographic studies in different fields: deciding in uncertainty; playing with ambiguity; using categories of difference; and disciplining the everyday. In the following, the mode of playing with ambiguity will be singled out and presented in detail, as it has an important impact on doing relationship while doing social work. In the article, we will use ethnographic data and examples to show how actors actively deal with different roles without making this explicit.
KW  - ethnographic research
KW  - doing relationship
KW  - doing social work
KW  - social work theories
KW  - ambiguity
Y1  - 2024
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/27551768Y2024D000000015
SN  - 2755-1768
VL  - 2024
IS  - Volume 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Aghamiri, Kathrin
A1  - Streck, Rebekka
A1  - Ursula, Unterkofler
ED  - Michaela, Köttig
ED  - Sonja, Kubisch
ED  - Christian, Spatscheck
T1  - Handlungsfeldübergreifend beobachten und rekonstruieren: Doing Social Work als theoriebildende Perspektive auf Soziale Arbeit
T2  - Geteiltes Wissen - Wissensentwicklung in Disziplin und Profession Sozialer Arbeit
KW  - Wissen in der Sozialen Arbeit
KW  - Doing Social Work
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-3-8474-2689-9
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/84742689
SP  - 55
EP  - 66
PB  - Barbara Budrich
CY  - Opladen, Berlin, Toronto
ER  -