A person can be a professional if he had done the thinking and is ready to bear the responsibility of execution or application of thought. The article conveys that social work is not totally a profession as it is only an intellectual activity and a function that is linked individuals with social functioning problems to helpful resources.
The article specifies that a person is a professional if his entire time is devoted to an activity. The term profession is strictly used as opposed to business or handicraft. The author says that to make a profession in genuine sense something more than mere claims or academic degree is required the social work can be recognized as a profession only if the term limited activities possessing the criteria. The article argues that, would it not be fair to mention as the first mark of a profession that the …show more content…
So does all others professionals like physicians, teachers. The social worker focuses on unsocialzed industry, disintegrating family. Hence it is argued that, is the social worker himself a professional or is he the intelligence that brings this or that profession or other activity in action? The very variety of situations he encounters compels him not to be a professional agent rather than a mediator invoking this or that professional agency. The argument here is not trying to intend that other professionals are independent and they are working independently. The social work or social worker is collaboration of different professions focusing on doing specific tasks which is a characteristic feature of latter-day organizations. Where the work of social worker is the responsibility of certain issues in all other