The Social Worker between Complexity and Autonomy
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Marco Carradore, Giorgio Gosetti, Cristina Lonardi
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/172
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 94-119 File size 220 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2025-172005
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The essay is based on a research project that involved social workers working in public, social and health services in some provinces in Northern Italy. The research, which analysed the changes in the demand and need for help, as well as the social worker's operating methods, confirms some trends that can be read in the literature. In particular, there is a strong emphasis placed by those interviewed on the complexity that characterises the work of the social worker, which concerns both the multi-problem situations faced and the profile of the organisations to which they belong, within which the space of professional autonomy and the valorisation or otherwise of skills is played out. Faced with increasing complexity, organisations seem to react by generating spaces of operational autonomy or, otherwise, by standardising work into performances. Two trajectories that mark the professional profile of the social worker.
Keywords: Social worker; Social work; Complexity; Profession.
Marco Carradore, Giorgio Gosetti, Cristina Lonardi, L’assistente sociale fra complessità e autonomia in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 172/2025, pp 94-119, DOI: 10.3280/SL2025-172005