Reading list

Social Work, Service Users Participation and Organization

Course
SW2275
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2024 (2024-09-02)
Decision date
2024-05-13

Established by the Board of Department 2009-06-02, with changes 2017-05-29, 2019-06-10, 2021-04- 26, 2023-10-03, 2024-05-13 starting from autumn term 2024.


* Note! The following course literature may been published in later editions/years. At the start of the course, the latest edition applies.


Adams, Robert, Dominelli, Lena & Payne, Malcolm (eds.)(2009): Critical Practice in Social Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave. About 200 p.

Almog-Bar, Michal & Schmid, Hille (2013): “Advocacy Activities of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations: A Critical Review” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 43 (1). pp 11-35. 24 p. http://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/puF086cs1DAvQ/full

Ansell, Chris & Gash, Alison (2008): “Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice” in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 18 (4). pp. 543-71. 28 p. https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article/18/4/543/1090370/Collaborative-Governance-in-Theory-andPractice

Arvidson, Malin, Johansson, Håkan, Johansson, Staffan och Nordfelt, Marie (2018), Local civil society regimes: liberal, corporatist and social democratic civil society regimes in Swedish metropolitan cities. I: Voluntary Sector Review, vol. 9, nr 1, mars 2018, s. 3–20.

Askhem, Ole Petter (2003): “Empowerment as Guidance for Professional Social Work: an Act of Balancing on a Slack Rope” in European Journal of Social Work. 6 (3). 13 p.

Besharov, M. L., & Smith, W. K. (2014). Multiple institutional logics in organizations: Explaining their varied nature and implications. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), 364-381.

Beresford, Peter (2021) Participatory Ideology. From Exclusion to Involvement. Policy Press: Bristol, the UK, 161 sidor.

Carroll, Julie & Minkler, Meredith (2000) Freire’s Message for Social Workers: Looking back, looking ahead.* Journal of Community Practice,* 8(1). 15 pages.

Clarke, John (2010): “Enrolling ordinary people: Governmental strategies and the avoidance of politics?” in Citizenship Studies 14 (6). pp 637-650. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/48990853_Enrolling_ordinary_people_Governmental_strate%20gies_and_the_avoidance_of_politics

Coleman, James S. (1988): “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital” in American Journal of Sociology 94, Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Social Structure (1988). pp. 95-120.
25 p. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2780243?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Dalrymple, Jane & Boylan, Jane (2013): Effective Advocacy in Social Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. 208 p.

Defourny, Jaques & Pestoff, Victor (eds.)(2008): Images and Concepts of the Third Sector in Europe. EMES WP. 2008 (02). New York: NY. 40 p. 
http://community-wealth.org/content/images-andconcepts-third-sector-europe

Garrow, Eve E. & Hasenfeld, Yeheskel (2012): “Institutional Logics, Moral Frames, and Advocacy” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 43 (1). pp 80-98. 18 p. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274300580_Institutional_Logics_Moral_Frames_and_Advo%20cacy

Guo, Chao & Saxton, Gregory D. (2014): “How Social Media Are Changing Nonprofit Advocacy” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 43 (1). pp 57-79. 22 p. 
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0899764012471585

Hasenfeld, Yeheskel & Garrow, Eve E. (2012): “Nonprofit Human-Service Organizations, Social Rights, and Advocacy in a Neoliberal Welfare State” in Social Service Review 86 (2). pp 295-322. 27 p. 
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/666391

Hasenfeld, Yeheskel (ed)(2010): Human Services as Complex Organizations. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Selected chapters. (Selection of about 200 p).

Johansson, Staffan (2003): “Independent Movement or Government Subcontractor? – Strategic Responses of Voluntary Organizations to Institutional Processes” in Financial Accountability & Management 19 (3). pp 209-224. 15 p. 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0408.00171/abstract

Lukes, Steven (2005): Power: a Radical View. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. About 100 p. även finns som e-bok.

Matthies, Aila-Leena (ed.)(2006): Nordic civic society organisations and the future of welfare services: a model for Europe? Copenhagen: Tema Nord. Nordic council of Ministers. Chapter 1 (pp 13-39) and 7 (pp 255-276). 46 p. http://norden.divaportal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A700760&dswid=article

Mosley, J.E. (2012) 'Keeping the lights on: How government funding concerns drive the advocacy agendas of nonprofit homeless service providers', Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(4), pp. 841–866.

Nyssens, Marthe , Adam, Sophie & Johnson, Toby (eds.) (2006): Social Enterprise: at the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society. London: Routledge. About 200 p.

Rothstein, Bo & Stolle, Dietlind (2008): “The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust” in Comparative Politics 40 (4). pp 441-459. 18 p. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20434095?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Sakamoto, Izumi & Pitner, Ronald (2005): “Use of Critical Consciousness in Anti-Oppressive Social Practice: Disentangling Power Dynamics at Personal and Structural Levels” in British Journal of Social Work 35 (4). Pp 435-452.

Salomon, L., Anheier, H. & associates (1999): “Civil Society in Comparative Perspective” in Salomon, L (ed.)(1999): Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. pp 3-39 (chapter 1). 36 p. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261403623_Global_Civil_Society_Dimensions_of_the_Non%20profit_Sector

Svedberg, Lars & Johan Vamstad (2006) Swedish Civil Society and the Provision of Welfare, Ideological Visions and Social Realities included in Nordic civic society organisations and the future of welfare services: a model for Europe? 21 p. http://norden.divaportal.org/smash/get/diva2:700760/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Tew, Jerry (2006): “Understanding Power and Powerlessness: Towards a Framework for Emancipatory Practice in Social Work” in Journal of Social Work 6 (1). Pp 33-51.


Additional literature focusing on a specific field of social work has to be chosen for the group paper work. About 600 p