Connections and Social Capital in UK Discourses

Personal social networks = Consist of relatives, friends, and neighbors providing support Professional or official help = Arranged, mediated, or modified by family and friends' advice Network relationships = Contribute to the need or problem under consideration Assessment of networks = Generic aspect of social work applied across different age groups

Case management tradition = Impacts material, physical, and social support Counselling roles = Identify significant relationships and relationship issues for service users Community understanding = Connects with understandings of individuals' networks and professional networks Theoretical significance of network ideas = Active at the interface between individuals and society

Isolation = A social need that network assessments can address Addictions = One of the social problems that network assessments apply to Offending = Another social problem relevant to network assessments Domestic violence = Example of a social problem requiring understanding of network relationships

<p>Class, gender, ethnicity = Experienced mainly through personal relationships Social resources tapping = Often facilitated through social networks Norms exercise = Can be done through personal social networks Discriminations imparted or counteracted = Influenced by personal relationships within social structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infancy to old age = Network assessments apply across this age span Wide range of social needs = Includes care, isolation, bereavement, mental health difficulties Wide range of social problems = Includes addictions, offending, domestic violence Theoretical significance of network ideas = Impacts the understanding of individuals' networks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dasgupta and Serageldin = Promoting close relationships in families and neighbourhoods Putnam = Advocating participation in voluntary civic activities Coleman = Criticism of lone-parent or one-child households Portes = Repackaging established terms like community and network connectedness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individual and family level = Informed by network ideas and research Community development = Relevant to networks in social work Organizational analysis = Related to aspects of social work beyond individual and family level Group work and policy = Areas where networks play a role in social work</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Connections and social capital = Prominent in political and media discourses Third-way ideas = Appeal to traditional values and social solidarity Network understanding = Provides a linkage between different arenas in social work Social inclusion = Potential outcome of promoting close relationships and civic activities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Close relationships in families and neighbourhoods = Answer to social and political problems Participation in voluntary civic activities = Informing social work education at individual and family level Promoting social inclusion = Central component of the social work enterprise Network ideas and research = Informing various aspects of social work beyond individual and family level</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not new but represent a repackaging of established terms = Community, social support, network connectedness Janus-faced ideas seeking to appeal to traditional values and social solidarity = 'Third-way' concepts like connections and social capital Used both for promoting social inclusion and in a discriminatory fashion = 'Connections' and 'social capital' in political discourse Central components of the social work enterprise regardless of framing = 'Features of social life' discussed in the article</p> Signup and view all the answers