ABSTRACT
This special issue represents a continuation of work done in recent years in exploring the relationships between social work and sociology. Part of this work has been done at conferences around the world where historical as well as contemporary issues were discussed and where theoretical as well as practical areas became the focus of attention. During the World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg in 2010, a group of persons interested in the relationships between social work and sociology gathered to discuss common areas of interest. Those participating in this gathering and others showing interest in its discussions shared educational backgrounds in either sociology or social work. The participants at this initial get-together included sociologists teaching in social work programmes and social workers teaching in sociology programmes and most of them published in journals known to ‘belong’ to the other disciplines. Common to all participants at this meeting was the feeling that their professional belonging was not solely related to one or the other of the disciplines.
