A case study on a new social worker in a professionally continued education at an institute – on the viewpoint of discipline power and subject by Foucault

• Main Authors: Chang Hsiung-Sheng, 張雄盛
• Other Authors: 黃肇新
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8c78b5

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 96 === More and more studies have shown their interests in social workers at institutes in recent years. However, most of them have their focuses on adjusting problems and stress management. Little attention has been directed to the interaction between the institute as a discipline organization and the social worker as a disciplined. Using the participant observation of anthropology fieldwork as the main method and the viewpoints of power discipline by Foucault as the analyzing framework, this thesis aims to discuss the process in which a new social worker, the disciplined, constructed her new form of subjectivity in response to her work tasks and the professionally continued education. In addition, this thesis also contends that the all the different voices, opinions, and ways to complaints, be it challenges, collaborations or consenting silence, at institution, can actually be seen as a negotiation or an interaction, a dynamic process, to the disciplinary mechanism. In fact, these intended differences in opinions, in a way, reflect the forming subjectivity of social workers. Through this participant observation on the new social worker, I had a chance to evaluate my work experience and to clear my doubts as an active social worker against some regulations at an institute. Intellectually, I had a better understanding of Foucault’s theories which were used in not only the analysis for this thesis but also for my previous work experience. As a result of writing this thesis, I re-discovered my position and strength as a social worker in an institution.