# A definition of social work: A thesis in sociology

Author: Cheyney, Alice S. (Alice Squires), 1888-1968

Genre: Category: Sociology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69557

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## Summary

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 should we apply the term “social work” to hospital social service and probation, but not to nursing and interpreting, services which seem to stand in a similar relation to medicine and the courts?

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/1/index.md)
- [ill. Social work itself naturally points to immediate purposes, small](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-definition-of-social-work-a-thesis-in-sociology-69557/chapters/3/index.md)