中国社会工作的法治维度

The Dimension of Rule of Law in China’s Social Work

在当代中国社会工作建构的过程中,法治的维度没有得到充分重视,不利于中国社会工作的战略发展。社会工作法治化的内源性依据是现代人的法治化生存,是社会工作职业化、专业化与本土化的依托与内在构成元素。社会工作需要在职业化上通过法治进行自我赋权与制度构建,开展法治行动进行案主增权和社会变革;在专业化上要建设社会工作法律学科,从基础理论和实践理论上扩展理论的法治元素;在本土化上需要从社会工作立法进入更为宏大的社会立法,明晰政治对于社会工作法治的形塑意义,推进社会工作本土化法治理论的研究。

The construction of social work in contemporary China did not attached sufficient emphasis to the rule of law,a situation not conducive to the strategic development of social work in China.The internal basis of legalization of social work lies in the legislation-related lives of modern people,constituting both the support and the internal component of professionalization,specialization and localization of social work.In professionalization,social work shall promote self-empowerment and systematic construction through the rule of law,while legal actions should be carried out so as to empower clients and impel social reforms;in specialization,disciplines of social work law should be established,while elements of rule of law shall be extended from basic and practical theories.In terms of localization,it calls for upgrading from social work legislation to social legislation on a macro scale,clarifying the shaping significance of politics on the rule of law in social work,and propelling the study on the localization of it.