Özet:

The concept of risk, which is characterized by knowing and taking action, is accepted as situations that need to be prevented in order to achieve positive change, especially with the discourses developed in education, health and social services of welfare states. Identifying possible risks, including them in social policy and structuring protective and preventive services for risks are important components of social welfare. Social work represents one of the important tools of the state in the identification of individual and socially risky situations and risk intervention. However, sociological debates around the concept of risk in recent years have drawn attention to the ambiguities of risk definitions in central terminology. It is thought that risks are indexed to some questionable rationalities, and in this respect, they may have outputs such as ignoring cultural differences, creating grounds for blame against certain groups, limiting individuals' right to self-determination, and reproducing marginality by categorizing individuals according to certain characteristics. This study is a review and evaluates the current debates on risk from the perspective of social work and proposes Scott Lash's concept of risk culture to connect two different fields of discourse in the literature on risk. It is thought that the study can summarize the contemporary orientations of social work in accordance with its changing nature from universal to local, from practice to theory and from psychology to sociology as emphasized in the IFSW (2014) definition.

Anahtar Kelimeler: