Tension And Integration:the Specialized Implantation And Indigenous Response Of Urban Community Social Work

Social transformation has driven the process of national governance into the direction of modernization,and as an important means of building a harmonious society,the specialization strategy of social work has become its important legitimacy source in social construction.During the process of promoting grass-roots governance,local governments incorporate community social workers and entrust their important roles in the "Innovating Social Governance Strengthening Grass-roots Construction" strategy.In the dual drive of national specialization strategy and Shanghai "No.1 Project" on the professionalization and specialization of community social workers,Hu Street in Pudong New District,Shanghai started the specialization path of community social work.The research focuses on the issues is how Hu Street implement then national and municipal policy of social work specialization?How to apply the social work specialization knowledge system under the construction of national discourse in the grassroots community governance?How can indigenous community social workers creatively transform the specialized knowledge in a strategic and reflective way,in order to adapt to the complex life scene of the community and its governance objectives?In this study,the author attempts to find out the answers from the specialized practice of community social work in Hu Street.In the perspective of theory,the author critically reviews the embeddedness theory and recognition theory,which are related to the specialization and localization of social work,and reveals the validity of the two in Chinese specific context,and then try to construct a "Community-based " analysis framework which involves three theoretical propositions.Specifically,the core of "community-based" social work is the"social" meaning of community.On this basis,social attribute of community is the basic premise,community disembeding or disembeddeding is the practice characterization and reshaping the "social" meaning of community.In the research method,the author uses the historical literature method,the questionnaire survey method and the deep interview method and so on,among which the historical literature method is examining the macro and middle level institutional background of Hu Street from its history context(chapter 3);the questionnaire survey method conducts a full sample survey of 336 community social workers and their practical strategies and effects to the specialization of community social work,in order to reflect the practical logic of the grassroots government in implementing superior policy(chapter 4);and the depth of the interview method is mainly regards the participants in Empowerment Plan and several leaders in community,which focusing on how they deal with the relationship of specialized knowledge and indigenous scenario in participating in community governance,especially to analyze how community social worker understand and reflect the specialized knowledge in practice(Chapter 5).The study found out that as a grass-roots government,Hu Street’ practice can be traced to the same origin to the central government in the implement of the national and local strategy.However,in the specific practice,the grassroots government found that the actions which are in accordance with the requirements of the higher level of professional principles did not achieve the expected effect,and it is difficult to play a positive role in promoting grassroots governance.Based on this finding,Hu Street further trained some community social workers through Empowerment Plan.These community social workers not simply accept the existing specialized knowledge,but formed a series of appropriate and valid strategies based on the complex and uncertain community governance scenarios,and it reflects that community social work the specialization and indigenization of community social work is mutual constructed rather than binary opposite.