The Scientific Spirit and Social Work (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Arthur James Todd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330981006 ISBN 13 : 9781330981009

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how social work blends science and humanity to build durable change. This book argues that reform won’t last without both facts and imagination behind it.

Delving into the tension between emotion and evidence, it examines how sentimental campaigns can mislead policy. It shows why thoughtful, data-driven reform matters and how to resist “organized emotion” that damages welfare efforts. The text also discusses housing, welfare subsidies, and the dangers of relying on quick feelings over careful study.

Beyond critique, the work highlights a constructive path: social work as a disciplined practice that uses science, ethics, and humane imagination together. It portrays the field as a social force aimed at stable progress, capable of guiding policy, education, and administration toward lasting improvement.

• How sentimentality can distort reform and how to ground policy in facts.


• Requests for public action, funding, and social programs assessed with care and evidence.


• The role of social workers in education, administration, and community building.


• Social work viewed as a form of national preparedness and peaceful progress.

Ideal for readers of policy history, social work, and the study of reform movements.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Three facts have conspired to overcome a natural hesitation to commit the enormity of another book in these disturbed times: First, the exigencies of social reconstruction demand that some threads of policy be offered to those who grope through the labyrinth. Second, the imparalleled official recognition of social work by the government by President Wilson, Secretary Baker, Secretary Daniels, Secretary Lane, the governors of various States, and others puts sodal workers, new and old, upon their mettle. The very proposals of statesmanlike social workers which were formerly stigmatized as visionary, revolutionary, or immoral are now embraced wholesale as the social creed which alone can save a coimtry in its hour of crisis. Hence, sodal workers must practice the humility and modesty of sdence; they must also make good and justify by their works the new faith placed in them. This means a constant effort to refresh their own mental outfit and to improve their equipment by every possible means. Third, the enormous war-time extension of various forms of sodal-welfare activity has called into service himdreds and even thousands of men and women, some of them only partly trained, many of them utterly untrained. Whether they elect to seek professional training or whether they enlist only as volimteers and amateurs, if they are to become permanent assets instead of liabilities to sdentific sodal work they must somehow or other get the sdentific and professional attitude toward their work. Now a profession is distinguished from a trade by several marks.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330981006
• ISBN 13: 9781330981009
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
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