imagined community, social work, correctness

Social work practice is uniquely shaped and influenced by the social, political, and cultural aspects in each country. Social work students and social work professionals are continually exposed to various explicit and implicit meanings about the “correctness” of social work performance. An imagined community of social work professionals is formed from the sense of belonging or the existence of something in common, which determines “correctness” of social work. The chapter aims to understand and describe the connection among the imagined community of social workers during two periods of performance of social work practice and the constructed correctness of social work performance. Thematic analysis of data obtained from a qualitative research strategy discovered two strategies for constructing “correctness”, namely, community generation of correctness and isolated generation of correctness in community-generated incorrectness.