社会工作是现代社会管理与公共服务的重要手段

主持人语]近年来,伴随着构建和谐社会的时代课题,社会工作被历史性地推向了中国社会的前台。社会工作的性质和任务要求其责无旁贷地承担起这样的历史重任。在现实生活中,社会工作通过为困难群体提供专业服务,开展公共服务,预防和协助解决突发性事件,促进社会管理,为构建和谐社会作出了巨大贡献。当前,中国社会工作也遇到了许多需要深入研究和探讨的问题,比如,为使社会工作有效地发挥作用,必须伴以社会政策及社会福利制度的发展,提高社会行政管理人员对社会工作价值的认同,加快社会服务机构的发展,等等。下面这组专题讨论文章,从各个层面分析了当前中国社会工作发展中存在的一些问题,探讨了如何在和谐社会建设中加快社会工作的发展。期望其中的观点能够对中国社会工作的理论和实践提供有益的参考。

Speeding up the Social Work in the Construction of Harmonious Society

In recent years the social work has been pushed to the forefront of China's society historically.In real life social work includes services for disadvantaged groups,public services,prevention of public accidents and promotion of social administration,thus contributing a lot to the construction of harmonious society.Nowadays many problems exist in social work that need to be explored,for instance,social policies,welfare,administrative staff and so on.The following essays discuss these problems from different angles and put forward how to speed up the social work,and some of their opinions are expected to give useful references for theory and practice of the social work in China.