Radical Reflections on Social Work Ethics

Year 2011, Volume: 22 Issue: 1, 147 - 164, 15.04.2011

Burcu Hatiboğlu

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reevaluate Kantian, Utilitarian and Common Morality ethical approaches which are influential in social work within the framework of radical, critical and anti-oppressive understandings. 

Because of this, radical, critical and anti-oppressive approaches are discussed with their impacts emphasized in social work ethical evaluation process and their critics to traditional ethical understanding. It is thought that this kind of framework is crucial to understand how “ethical” or “non-ethical” can be shaped with different values in social work practice. This idea is based on the discourse that conception of traditional ethics which focuses on ethical dilemmas encountered within social work practice has slipped to new ethical approaches familiar with radical, critical and reflexive traditions at present.

Keywords

Ethics of social work, principal based ethical approaches, radical social work

SOSYAL HİZMET ETİĞİNDE RADİKAL YANSIMALAR

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı, sosyal hizmet etiğinde etkili olan Kantçı, Faydacı ve Ortak Ahlakçı yaklaşımları radikal, eleştirel ve baskı-karşıtı anlayış çerçevesinde yeniden değerlendirmektir. Bu nedenle radikal, eleştirel ve baskı karşıtı yaklaşımların, sosyal hizmet etik değerlendirme sürecinde vurguladığı boyutlar ve geleneksel etik anlayışa getirdiği eleştiriler ele alınmıştır. Böyle bir ele alışın sosyal hizmet uygulamalarında “etik” ya da “etik dışı” kabullerin farklı değerlerle şekillenebileceğini göstermesi açısından önemli olduğu düşünülmektedir. Bu düşünce ise sosyal hizmet uygulamasında karşılaşılan etik ikilemler üzerine odaklanan geleneksel etik anlayışın, artık radikal, eleştirel ve dönüşümsel geleneğe yakın yeni etik yaklaşımlara kaydığı söylemine dayanmaktadır.

Keywords

Sosyal hizmet etiği, ilke temelli etik yaklaşımlar, radikal sosyal hizmet

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