Published: 2023-12-29

Various images of social work and the functioning of social welfare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Abstract

This study presents various images of social work and the functioning of social welfare institutions and nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The presented images were constructed by researchers, social workers, the staff of institutional forms of care, journalists, experts, spokesmen of social welfare centers, aid clients and residents of social welfare homes. The multiplicity of sources of information and views was conducive to showing various elements of these images, created for various intentions and for various purposes. In the review of these images, reports from sociological and pedagogical research as well as numerous press and Internet materials are used, showing the unusual situation and the struggle of social workers and representatives of other assistance professions in securing the basic needs of social welfare clients and residents of social welfare homes. The content analysis of the existing sources shows that the images constructed by the researchers differ from the images shown by the authors of journalistic articles. However, the images presented by the social welfare staff do not differ significantly from the images presented by social welfare recipients and residents of social welfare homes.

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Michalska, A. (2023). Various images of social work and the functioning of social welfare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.31261/GSS_SN.2023.14.01

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Published: 2023-03-13


eISSN: 2353-9658

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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