政策实践是社会工作者建构公共生活的核心路径。随着政府购买公共服务的普及,社会服务机构中社会工作者的政策实践成了新时代中国社会工作事业发展的重要命题。对以上海市A青少年社会服务机构中社会工作者为例的焦点小组的研究表明,非营利社会服务机构中的社会工作者目前对政策实践有一定的认识,但不完整和确切。青少年社会工作者认为自身在政策实践上的影响力小,他们的既有行动尚处于一种自生状态,表现为政策实践主要是以协商参与为本质的发声倡导实践。与体制内的层级关联既限定了社会工作者建构公共生活的时空结构,也为社会工作者的政策实践提供了条件与载体。在这一过程中,青少年社会工作者积极发挥主体能动性,通过与外在结构的互动、协商或妥协展现了以发声倡导为主的实践结果。社会工作者自身能动性与结构的互构框架为本土社会工作在未来政策实践上的角色澄清和机制建设提供了启发。
<<Policy practice is the pivotal path to construct public life for social workers. With recently prevalent government procurement of public services in China,social workers’ policy practice in non-profit social service organization has become an important proposition for the development of Chinese social work in the new era. According to the focus group study of social workers of A,a non-profit social service organization with youth in Shanghai,these social workers now have a certain understanding of policy practice,but their understandings remain incomplete and inexact. Social workers with youth hold the notion that their own influence on policy practice is quite limited,and their existing actions are still in a state of self-development,manifested as vocal advocacy practices based on consultation participation. The hierarchical relationship with the bureaucracy system not only sets the time-space structure over social workers to construct public life,but also provides resources and carriers for social workers in policy practice implementation. In this process,social workers with youth actively play the role of initiative,by means of the interaction,negotiation,or compromise with external structures,with the results of vocal advocacy. The interactive structure-agency framework provides implications on the role clarification and mechanism construction of social work in policy practice for future.
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