Social Work (Social Policy) Used as a Tool of Social Control

Abstract

This article aims to define and describe social work (social policy) as a social control tool. This article analyzes and studies social work's implications as a social control tool on social, cultural, economic, and political aspects. This article also illustrates social control's implication on the political, social welfare, Social work, and social work implications as a social control tool in social work future research. The author uses the method of critical thinking by shed lighting the sociologists' definitions of social control, the purposes of social control, and its forms in the community. The author aims to raise awareness among social workers about the importance of their role to defend the profession of social work to meet people's needs and maintain social stability. They may do so by playing a mediate role between achieving government policy plans and meeting people's needs by using the government needs to social workers' services as an opportunity to apply the social work profession and empower people in need to easy access to the community resources and meet their needs and maintains social stability and economic prosperity.

Formation of professional competence for future social educators based on an integrated approach

“…One of the progressive trends in the development of global social practice is its focus on the timely identification and effective solution of problems arising from a particular client, family, or social problem in general. In this context, a social work specialist is seen as a resource for dealing with issues about the individual and the environment, a source of real change, a carrier of activity that organizes people, associations, and institutions, and a rebuilder of some social ties (Abulhul, 2021;Afomachukwu, 2021;Kam, 2020;Saxena & Chandrapal, 2022). In this regard, the role of social education as a creative and stabilizing potential for the development of social states is increasing, requiring new research methods as well as the strengthening of cultural and intellectual functions (Aksoy & Ablak, 2019;Çal & Demirkaya, 2020;Fallah, Mohabbati-Kalejahi, Alavi, & Zahed, 2022).…”

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“…Абулхул әлеуметтік бақылаудың саясатқа, әлеуметтік қамсыздандыруға, әлеуметтік жұмысқа әсерін қарастырады. Автор әлеуметтік бақылаудың әлеуметтанулық анықтамаларын, әлеуметтік бақылаудың мақсаттарын және оның қоғамдағы формаларын көрсете отырып, сыни ойлау әдісін қолданады (Abulhul, 2021).…”

Social Work in the Shadow of Death

“…129-130) This pattern will not change because all too often, social work focuses on meeting the needs of individuals affected by the personal and devastating impact of institutional policies and practices as opposed to fighting against the root causes of the institutional policies and practices (Kivel, 2007). Most social work interventions focus on individualistic causes and explanations to social problems, distribution of resources that ensure compliance and acquiescence, and regulation of Black people, other communities of color, and lower classes via surveillance and observation (Abulhul, 2021). Social workers have long been tasked with "policing the boundaries of welfare" (Humphries, 2004, p. 93).…”

“…Despite the profession's claims that they are working in clients' best interests and believe in self-determination, social workers often find themselves in the position of exerting control, rather than care (Abulhul, 2021). Social work practice has been reduced to individualistic explanations of social problems or "the least complex, narrowest, most 'doable,' private or internal aspects of cases" (Meyer, 1993, as cited in Long, 2000.…”