A definition of social work: A thesis in sociology

								



Probation and parole                                              4
Protective work for young people                                  4
Special value of policewomen in protective work for girls         2
Juvenile delinquency                                              2
Runaway and neglected girls                                       1
Papers not devoted to a single subject                           17

     Including such considerations as the influence of war

     on criminality, municipal detention for women, the function

     of a truancy officer, the desirability of creating a public

     defender and the moral education of training school

     inmates.

 III. HEALTH.


Standard of living                                               19
Coordination of health services                                   5
Special problems of health in war time                            4
Housing                                                           3
Health work among the foreign-born                                3
Health problems of the Red Cross                                  2

 IV. PUBLIC AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS.


Administrative questions                                         15
Effects of prohibition                                            3
State pensions for mothers                                        3
Pauperism                                                         2
Control of leprosy, by colonization or otherwise                  2
Such standardization of record keeping as to make the

      records kept by the several states comparable                 2
Education of the public in their responsibility to public

      charges, public care for negroes, care of crippled

      children, care of defectives and delinquents--one paper

      each                                                          4

 V. THE FAMILY.


Questions of administration                                       1
Registration of all appeals in a social workers’ exchange         3
Advantages of an orderly approach to social case analysis         3
Examples of case work treatment                                   3
The family                                                        2
Marriage laws                                                     2
Tasks growing out of war                                         10

      Maintenance of family solidarity during absence of

      men, reinstatement of returned soldiers, Red Cross

      programs and functions of “home service.”


Papers not devoted to a single topic included such subjects as:



     Case work as a source of information for sociology.

     Case work as contributing to democracy.

     Case work as interpreting industrial problems.

     Case work as serving those above the poverty line,

     cooperating, interpreting social work to the public,

     organizing the community, family budgets, thrift and