SOWK 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Settlement Movement, British Movement, Living Wage
23 Nov 2017
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Studies key social work thinkers, intellectual historians of early 20th century canada. Early social work practices, and the evolution from mission to profession. Hsitorical lens has to be an ongoing practice. Early canadian social work - influence of protestant ethics. Reforming the human soul and improving their social situation > bringing in a more. 1920s-1930s- the rise of social work as a profession- from everybody"s business > a. Abraham flexner"s 1915 speech on criteria of professions". Professional as distinct from an amateur. Intellectual as distinct from manual/working with instruments. Learned" & scientific ongoing learning, not mere routine. A concrete, definitive purpose or objective for the profession. Rise of industrialism and rational, scientific thought > secular swk. Mary richmond on scientific diagnosis of clients (see case work) for communities): movement to date. early scholars rooted in this movement. Rise of case work models, psy" disciplines, freudian methods. Client as problem; focus off/away from social processes of problem formation.
