Professor Sarah Banks s.j.banks@durham.ac.uk
Professor
This article outlines and develops the concept of ‘ethics work’ in social work practice. It takes as its starting point a situated account of ethics as embedded in everyday practice: ‘everyday ethics’. This is contrasted with ‘textbook ethics’, which focuses on outlining general ethical principles, presenting ethical dilemmas and offering normative ethical frameworks (including decision-making models). ‘Ethics work’ is a more descriptive account of ethics that refers to the effort people put into seeing ethically salient aspects of situations, developing themselves as good practitioners, working out the right course of action and justifying who they are and what they have done. After identifying seven features of ethics work, including work on framing, roles, emotion, identity, reason, relationships and performance, each element is illustrated with reference to two case examples from social work practice. It is argued that the concept of ethics work, with its focus on the practitioners as moral agents in context, is an important antidote to the rules-based managerialism of much contemporary practice.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 11, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 14, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jan 14, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Feb 23, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 14, 2017 |
Journal | Ethics and Social Welfare |
Print ISSN | 1749-6535 |
Electronic ISSN | 1749-6543 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 35-52 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2015.1126623 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1411510 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Ethics and Social Welfare on 14/01/2016, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17496535.2015.1126623.
Social Work Ethics
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