The Ideals, Myths and Realities of Ethics, Practice and Social Justice
Автор:Merrylyn Asquith Год: 2011 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 248 ISBN: 9783844330366 This work undertakes a critical postmodern analysis premised on the works of Zygmunt Bauman. It explores through a postmodern framework, themes of power relations, personal moral frameworks and codiifed ethics. Notions of absolutism, relativism and the power of control are juxtaposed against ideals of social justice and reflected through a Baumanian framework. Systems of influencing power are constituted as legal-rational authority and political-socioeconomic interests, as they are delegated through legislation, bureaucracy, organisation and hierarchical line management. I suggest that literature focusing on moral-ethical decision-making, social justice ideals and professional practice, together with codified ethics do not conceive of ways in which the claimed ideals of human service work (the achievement of social justice ideals) might be achieved in the face of structural oppressions that facilitate disadvantage. I argue that a professional''s moral ethical decision-making is...
