社会工作的“社会性”探讨

Discuss on the “Sociality” of Social Work

在一些社会工作的理解与实践中,存在着片面而错误地强调专业性而缺失社会性的偏向。也有一些论者在对社会工作之社会性的认识上有偏颇,从而将其与专业性对立起来。本文力求从社会学、社会理论及社会心理学等关于社会性的论述出发,辨析确认社会性的全面准确意涵;进而寻求更好地理解把握社会工作的社会性含义。本文提出,社会性最基本的就是指人与人之间的交往联系性,而社会工作之社会性即是贯注这种人与人交往联系的视角,以之为目的和手段。同时,社会工作的社会性也正是其专业性之所在,其专业性与社会性之间并无矛盾,而恰恰是统一的。

Some understanding and practice of social work put wrong and one-sided emphasis on professionalism and lack socialness. And other arguers take biased viewpoints on social work's socialness, leading to some kinds of opposition between socialness and professionalism. This paper tries to begin from the treatises in sociology, social theory and social psychology on socialness, to differentiate and analyse its comprehensive and exact meanings. Further, it seeks to grasp the socialness in social work better. This article presents that socialness fundamentally means the nature of people's interaction and relation, and the social work's socialness implies that it concentrate on social perspective, take people's interactions and relations as both its end and its means. At the same time, the social work's socialness is just its professionalism.These two are not in contradiction, rather in unity.