What Are You Thoughts On Social Work Agencies

When I went to law school the politically conservative students called me the social worker because of my relative conservative beliefs. They would mutter from the back of the class when I was discussing a legal case I thought would be better decided by society rather than the strict rule of law that I should become a lawyer for social work agencies.

I am not a liberal. I was not one in law school and I am not one now. But from my studies I can see how those who promote justice based on societal and environmental factors think and believe. I studied sociology as an undergrad and it was my minor to my major of political science.

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.

Conservative minded people both politically and socially argue that everyone, even handsome young movie stars, as a right of self responsibility. If your life is tough then you made it tough on yourself. Do not blame society and certainly do not blame your environment.

The social worker on the other hand, at least those who have studied sociology in the past fifty years and adopt the popular thinking believe that environment has a great deal to do with the way a person grows and becomes the adult he or she is. If a child grows up in a crime ridden area where drug dealing, prostitution, and illegal gambling is the norm he will have disadvantages a child living in an upper class family on the nice side of town does not even know exists.

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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