What Are You Thoughts On Social Work Agencies
As a law student I got the tag as being a liberal. That was because I went to school with a lot of young republicans. Do you remember that term? When I would argue in class that some cases should be determined by social justice concerns and not always law courts I heard fellow classmates mockingly say I should become a lawyer for social work agencies.
I am not a liberal in the normal sense of the word. Whatever is a normal liberal these days that it. I did have minor in sociology however as an undergrad. So I do know the concept of social work.
Social workers are those people you see in the movies of the fifties and the sixties who are trying to rescue the misunderstood person who is on the wrong track in life because he was raised wrong or because he is angry at society or because he cannot get a job. In the movie where Marlon Brando plays a rebel on a motorcycle who gives the establishment a hard time we come to sympathize with him. It is not his fault he is angry and disrupting life everywhere he goes. It is society’s fault for not providing him what he needed to be a respectable member of society.
People with conservative views towards politics and society argue that it is not society who is fault if someone is not living a proper life. Conservatives argue that everyone has responsibility for their own actions. If you break the law, if you end up out of work, if you do not have an education, then it is your fault not society’s fault.
However, the modern student of sociology takes into account the environment a child is raised in and believes that one is naturally affected by, thereby makes decisions based upon, the environment one grows up in. If you grow up in an area run by drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes then this will have a negative influence on your development. Compared to a child in lives in a nice part of town, the child in the ghetto has a disadvantage.
I worked as company representative in the ghetto. I also worked in some rich communities. If you had my choice of where to grow up or raise a family, I would pick the nice side of town. There are more advantages on the rich block. Even if you just count not having to pass the drug dealers and pimps on your way to school an advantage.
This is not to say that those who decide to forget school and join the ranks of the drug dealers or other law breakers do not have personal responsibility for their acts, they do. But social workers do not need conservatives calling them bleeding heart liberals.
Many young people live in crime infested jungles. They live in area controlled by drug dealers. They do not want to hear about how their environment is holding them back. They simply want out. And social work agencies can help them get out.
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