Journal of Guangxi Teachers Education University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2025, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (6): 67-76.doi: 10.16088/j.issn.1001-6597.2025.06.008

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Rural Social Work Development:Its Dual Paradoxes and Their Transcendence

ZHAO Xiao-feng1, AO Shu-feng2   

  1. 1. College of Humanities & Social Development, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712000, China;
    2. Research and Assessment Center for Rural Revitalization in the Yellow River Basin, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712000, China
  • Received:2024-03-17 Online:2025-11-05 Published:2025-12-09

Abstract: Rural social transformation and the transition of primary-level social governance provide policy legitimacy and professional autonomy space for rural social work. The “Institution-Life” perspective offers a suitable theoretical lens for examining its development. An analysis of the current rural social work development within a two-dimensional framework of institutional administrative constraints and life-oriented service agency reveals that it has undergone four developmental types: the “Localized Service” strategy, the “Autonomous Detour” strategy, the “Suspended Rural” strategy, and the “Laissez-faire Stagnation” strategy. Under the significant tension between administrativeization and life-orientation, rural social work development faces dual predicaments from both institutions and daily life, manifesting as the dual paradoxes of a “resource trap” and a “service dilemma”. To transcend these paradoxes, it is necessary to integrate life considerations into the implementation of institutions, optimize institutions through professional life practices, and ultimately return to the life-oriented purpose of serving the people.

Key words: rural social work, “institution-life” perspective, dual development paradoxes, serving the people

CLC Number:  C916
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