Investigating Everyday Life in a Modernist Public Housing Scheme: The Implications of Residents' Understandings of Well-Being and Welfare for Social Work
Investigating Everyday Life in a Modernist Public Housing Scheme: The Implications of Residents' Understandings of Well-Being and Welfare for Social Work
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调查现代公共住房计划中的日常生活:居民对福祉和福利的理解对社会工作的影响
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10.1093/bjsw/bcy084
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2019
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Hicks S
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Hicks S
This article examines the concerns of residents living in a modernist social-housing scheme in Edinburgh, Scotland, chosen as a focus because the architects’ designs were originally intended to foster better community, well-being and welfare. After reviewing literature on community and social work, the article outlines the ethnographic approach used in this research, the purpose of which was to pay close attention to the ways in which residents’ well-being and welfare concerns arisein situ. Data were collected in 2016 via semi-structured interviews with seventeen residents, three of whom also took part in diary-elicited discussions and seven in walking tours of the community. These methods were used to elicit sensory and spatial aspects of respondents’ experiences. The article outlines findings relating to residents’ well-being and welfare concerns and goes on to discuss community relations, the association of stigma and social welfare and, finally, residents’ responses to those in need of community or social work support. Addressing social class and belonging, the complexities of attachment to place and how environment contributes to the emergence of relative welfare of residents, the article considers the implications for social work of an emplaced understanding of well-being and welfare.