TY - BOOK ID - 143149939 TI - Sheffield, Ada Eliot AU - Shaw, Ian AU - Lau, Dayana AU - Atkinson, Paul AU - Delamont, Sara AU - Cernat, Alexandru AU - Sakshaug, Joseph W. AU - Williams, Richard A. PY - 2020 SN - 1529745292 PB - London : SAGE Publications Ltd., DB - UniCat KW - Social Work. KW - Counselling and Psychotherapy. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143149939 AB - The life and work of Ada Eliot Sheffield (1869-1943) provide an exemplar case study of sociological inquiry in and for social work. Her early protoconstructionism imbued her interrelated understanding of culture, the social situation, and personality. This in turn fashioned, and was patterned by, her thinking and practice in regard to work with and writing about cases. The relevance of this largely forgotten womandismissed by the 1930s' social work establishment as a regrettable "sociological phase" and disregarded by sociologists beyond the first generation at the University of Chicagois threefold. First, to a notable but not exhaustive degree her methodology was developed and applied in constant interchange with her wider understanding of society and the roles of social actors thereinnot exhaustive, because she made major contributions ... ER -