TISSA 2011: Politics of Identity – The Changing Face of Social Work

Social work is challenged by the social, structural and economic ruptures in the rapidly changing European societies. This raises inevitably the question of its professional identity. (more…)

The Morals of Responsibility, Social Justice and Social Security of the Person

Tatiana Shipunova, St. Peterburg (Russia)

The main values of a society in any concrete historical period of its existence are reflected in its morals. These morals can be considered as the recognition by society of the fact that life, well-being and the social security of a person can only be guaranteed if society is united as a whole, and if the whole society unites to observe the values provided. (more…)

New Publications

We introduce the following new publications: (more…)

Perspectives on social Welfare: The Italian case

Carmela Davì, Messina (Italy)

The call to the social professionals today changes on the basis of the incredible transformations of national welfare systems that kept communities in all ages. (more…)

Social Control of Deviant Behavior in the Context of Rights and Freedoms of Man

Tatjana Shipunova, St. Petersburg (Russia)

T. Gobbs, an English philosopher, thinking about the problem of sociogenesis, had formulated a question: ‘How can a society exist if dog eats dog?’ (more…)

Towards a relational transgression of the tensions between social work and social policy?

Jesper Stage Petersen and Niels Rosendal Jensen, Aarhus/Helsinge (Denmark)
Our contribution aims at exploring possible ways out of what seems to be a dichotomy-trap for the professions of social pedagogy/social work. The intention is to present a number of arguments to overcome the dichotomy between “economisation of the social” (management) and “the social per se” (the values and hard core of social pedagogy/social work). (more…)

Conference Report: «Development of a social service system in the field of HIV prevention»

Olga I. Borodkina ,St. Petersburg (Russia)

According to official data on 30.06.2009 494 074 HIV-infected people have been registered in Russia, including 4165 children. (more…)