Category: Sociology
What social worker has not been asked to define social work and found himself at a loss? It is easy to describe his own particular tasks but it is not easy to characterize the profession as a whole or to say why its very diverse phases are identified with one another. Why shou...
What social worker has not been asked to define social work and found himself at a loss? It is easy to describe his own particular tasks but it is not easy to characterize the p...
2. CHAPTER IIThe “charities directories” of New York[6] and Philadelphia[7] offer the most inclusive available lists of the various types of social work. For present purposes it will be suff...
3. ill. Social work itself naturally points to immediate purposes, smalldefinitive tasks like the formulation of a standard distribution of expenses in the budget of a family at subsistence level. To conclude that these are its ultimate objects woul...
4. CHAPTER IIIThe historical perspective which shows social work to have developed out of charity shows also that there is a close relation between that development and contemporaneous develo...
5. CHAPTER IVWe have now propounded a tentative definition of social work based upon an interpretation of its development and present practices. We will not be sure of the correctness of tha...
6. CHAPTER VThere are some fifteen schools for the training of social workers,[55] independent institutions or university departments. The younger among them have not followed at all closel...
7. CHAPTER VIAt the beginning of this study it was said that a definition of social work was in demand for practical use. We have developed a definition which seems to hold good as far as it...