Has Social Work Experienced a Cultural Turn? A Multi-Corpus Empirical Exploration

Key Points

• The aim is to examine whether social work has undergone a cultural transformation or simply accommodated to cultural aspects.
• Conducted a multi-corpus analysis of social work literature
• Evaluated institutional and professional practices in the discipline
• Analyzed implications for theory and education
• Social work demonstrates cultural accommodation rather than a true cultural turn
• Institutionalization of culture lacks significant epistemic transformation
• Findings suggest critical implications for future research and decolonization efforts