ABSTRACT

This article traces the main features of social work in contemporary Russian printed media in the context of social policy reforms and social work services transformation from 1994 to 2018. This article analyses the mass media portrayal of social work within a broader picture of the Russian social policy, taking into account the interplay of the macro-context of the welfare reforms, on the one hand, and the mezzo-context of the profession, on the other. The analysis of social work images reveals changing professional status and societal beliefs concerning this occupation against the background of welfare policy reforms. This analysis gives an important perspective on the transformation of social work in Russia and poses the broader questions of how social policy affects the professional status of social work and how the profession itself through the media images is becoming a political issue; a care-and-control tool. In addition, this study contributes to research on the rise of non-governmental participation in social work in the Russian regions, where there has been a long history of the state monopolising social service provision.

摘要

本文追溯了1994年至2018年社会政策改革和社会工作服务转型的背景下当代俄罗斯印刷媒体社会工作的主要特征。本文从俄罗斯社会政策的更广泛视角分析了大众传媒对社会工作的刻画一方面考虑了福利改革的宏观背景，另一方面考虑了职业的中介背景的相互作用。对社会工作图像的分析揭示了在福利政策改革背景下有关这一职业的职业地位和社会观念的变化。该分析为俄罗斯社会工作的转型提供了重要视角，并提出了更广泛的问题，即社会政策如何影响社会工作的职业地位以及通过媒体形象的职业本身如何成为政治问题；护理和控制工具。此外，这项研究还有助于研究俄罗斯地区民间社会服务提供的历史由来已久的俄罗斯地区民间社会参与的兴起。