ABSTRACT

The imagined community of social workers provides a collective resemblance to the individual construction of the correctness of performance of social work. This paper aims to understand the influence of the imagined community and its shared social worker’s metanarrative on the ‘correctness’ of social work in social and legal protection of children in Czechia. The data were created through a qualitative research strategy, more specifically through sets of three repeated interviews with eight well-experienced social workers from the office of social and legal protection of children. The data were analyzed using the constructivist grounded theory by Charmaz. The research conceived six roles of the imagined community that fulfill specific functions, plus two functions for which the informants did not create any specific roles of imagined community; making these functions in the informants’ view unfulfilled. Specifically, this concerned self-organizing capacity as well as activation and protection of a social worker. The generated data are further discussed in the context of education and training designed for social workers.

摘要

想象中的社会工作者社区与个人建构社会工作的正确性提供了集体相似之处。本文旨在了解想象社区及其共享社会工作者的元叙事对“正确性”的影响。捷克社会和法律保护儿童的社会工作。这些数据是通过定性研究策略创建的，更具体地说，是通过对来自儿童社会和法律保护办公室的八名经验丰富的社会工作者进行的三组重复访谈。使用 Charmaz 的建构主义扎根理论分析数据。该研究构想了想象社区的六个角色，它们履行特定的功能，加上两个功能，信息提供者没有为想象社区创造任何特定的角色；使得线人眼中的这些功能无法实现。具体而言，这涉及自组织能力以及社会工作者的激活和保护。生成的数据将在为社会工作者设计的教育和培训的背景下进一步讨论。