What Kind of Sociology is Useful to Social Workers?

Authors

Alfred Mcclung Lee, The City University of New York

Abstract

Both social workers and sociologists have been trying desperately for more than a century to live down their miscellaneous ancestry. Both are still embarrassed that their disciplines are rooted historically in the work of oldtime clergy, police, utopian philosophers, sentimentalists, reactionary manipulators, and radical thinkers and agitators. Nevertheless it was from those men's and women's concerns, their perceptions of social problems, their efforts at social amelioration and reform or revolution, and their inter-cult conflicts that the two corps of modern professionals sprang.

Recommended Citation

Lee, Alfred Mcclung (1976) "What Kind of Sociology is Useful to Social Workers?," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1169
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol4/iss1/2