Features of the Formation of Domestic Knowledge in the Field of Social Work Theory
The formation of the theory of social work is a particularly significant topic, especially in the year of the 30th anniversary of professional social work in Russia. In comparison with the development of world and Western theory, the Russian theory of social work has its own specifics. This is due to the fact that its formation took place against the background of the development of postmodernism ideas, but taking into account the fact that until the 1990s the Marxist paradigm dominated domestic social science, and only at the end of the twentieth century social theory in Russia began to turn to foreign, especially Western theoretical developments. Also, a feature of the Russian theory of social work at that time was that representatives of various social and humanitarian disciplines began to actively engage in this theory. A peculiar combination of psychological, socio-psychological, socio-pedagogical, sociological, socio-ecological and other approaches in the field of theoretical support for the development of the profession was formed.