| Abstract [eng] |
In the dissertation the privatization of social work services was analysed using actor and new-institutionalism theories. The purpose of the dissertation is to detect the origins and conception, factors and results, as well as development of the social work services in the context of privatization in Lithuania. There is still a study gap of the privatization of social work services in Lithuania, as the development of the system of social work services in Lithuania has been started only since 1990. Though there are some researches which analyse some aspects of the privatization of social work services in Lithuania. The significance and purpose of the dissertation is to fill this lack and to analyse systemically the privatization of social work services as well as its’ factors in Lithuania. Dissertation objective is to analyse the privatization of social work services in social work services practise in Lithuania: to detect the origins and conception, the factors, the results and the development perspectives of the privatization of social work services in Lithuania. |
