In this paper, we offer an innovative alternative to the deontological and utilitarian approaches which tend to dominate social work ethics, instead proposing a proportionist ethics drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas. claims that Habermas ‘distanced himself from phronesis and...

This paper locates the social work literature on spirituality within the broad theoretical and epistemological perspectives of late modernity. It focuses particularly on the rise of individualism and its culmination in the theory of reflexive modernization—life politics and subpolitics—and...

In 2003, following a Parliamentary announcement by President Thabo Mbeki, a new cadre of public servants - community development workers (CDWs) - was introduced in South Africa to serve as agents of change within local government municipalities charged with the responsibility for social and...