Professionalization and Activism in Social Work: the Sixties, the Eighties, and the Future / / Irwin Epstein, Linda Cherrey Reeser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Reeser, Linda Cherrey,; Epstein, Irwin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; Foreword --; Introduction --; 1. Social Action Attitudes and Behaviors: The Sixties Versus the Eighties --; 2. Background Characteristics and Social Work Activism --; 3. The Professional Attributes of Social Workers: The Sixties Versus the Eighties --; 4. Professionalization and Social Worker Activism: Two Tests of the “Conservative Professional Community” Model --; 5. The Mythology and the Future of Social Work Professionalization and Activism --; APPENDIX A. The Future of Research on Social Work Professionalization and Activism --; APPENDIX B. Major Indices and Their Component Items --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231888691; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/rees92434
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Irwin Epstein, Linda Cherrey Reeser.

Compares the findings of two large, public opinion surveys of social workers conducted in 1968 and again in 1984 to determine the changes, if any, that may have occurred in the social activism and professionalization of social workers during that space of time.