TY - JOUR
T1 - Modes of Relational Agency among Welfare-reliant Mothers
AU - Sinai-Glazer, Hagit
AU - Brummans, Boris H.J.M.
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PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - How do welfare-reliant mothers enact their agency in relationships with social workers and social services? The present article addresses this question by investigating how twenty Israeli welfare-reliant mothers expressed different modes of human agency in in-depth interviews. Results show how research participants enact agency through (i) expressing anger, (ii) seeking help, (iii) resisting and (iv) engaging in non-action. By highlighting the multidimensional and situational nature of agency, this article offers a new relational lens for conceptualising and empirically studying human agency in social work.
AB - How do welfare-reliant mothers enact their agency in relationships with social workers and social services? The present article addresses this question by investigating how twenty Israeli welfare-reliant mothers expressed different modes of human agency in in-depth interviews. Results show how research participants enact agency through (i) expressing anger, (ii) seeking help, (iii) resisting and (iv) engaging in non-action. By highlighting the multidimensional and situational nature of agency, this article offers a new relational lens for conceptualising and empirically studying human agency in social work.
KW - Helping relationship
KW - Relational agency
KW - Social services
KW - Social work
KW - Welfare-reliant mothers
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U2 - 10.1093/bjsw/bcab006
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bcab006
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AN - SCOPUS:85124905844
SN - 0045-3102
VL - 52
SP - 536
EP - 553
JO - British Journal of Social Work
JF - British Journal of Social Work
IS - 1
ER -