Sociology for Social Workers

Anne Llewellyn is Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at Teesside University Lorraine Agu is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Leeds Beckett University David Mercer is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Leeds Beckett University

This book is an essential read for all social work students and newly-qualified practitioners.Dr Steve Rogowski, Professional Social WorkThis new, updated version will help training and qualified social workers to make links between policy, practice and sociological theory and assist them to identify their role and contribution to challenging structural inequalities evident in society today.Sheila Furness, University of BradfordThis second edition is recommended as core reading for all social work students as it skilfully captures the central relevance of a sociological understanding to the whole social work curriculum. It also demonstrates via the use of carefully selected examples the location of social work as a profession within the social and political context. Never has such a text been more needed.Cath Holmstrom, Middlesex University

• IntroductionChapter 1 What is Sociology?Chapter 2 Social Class, Poverty and Social ExclusionChapter 3 GenderChapter 4 Race and EthnicityChapter 5 DisabilityChapter 6 Sexuality and Sexual ExploitationChapter 7 Deviance and CrimeChapter 8 Family and CommunityChapter 9 Children and Young PeopleChapter 10 Old AgeChapter 11 Health and Mental HealthChapter 12 Social Work and Social ContextUseful Resources