social work
organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of people in poverty, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
Origin of social work
1Other words from social work
- social worker, noun
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How to use social work in a sentence
She would enroll this fall at the Community College of Philadelphia before taking another run at a social work degree at Temple.
What Philadelphia Reveals About America’s Homicide Surge | by Alec MacGillis, photography by Hannah Price/Magnum Photos, special to ProPublica | July 30, 2021 | ProPublicaHer launch video highlighted her time on the bench — and her mother’s pioneering career as a professor of social work — and in an interview she highlighted her victories in two statewide judicial elections.
She had studied it in history, she had practiced it for 25 years on front lines of social work.
There Is a Better Way to Use Power at Work. This Forgotten Business Guru Has the Secrets | Matthew Barzun | June 15, 2021 | TimeMimi Chapman, a professor of social work who is chair of the faculty at Chapel Hill, said it is “exceedingly rare” for the board not to ratify a tenure recommendation from the university.
Companies have had to review their practices to accommodate a hybrid-approach which allows employees to spend some time in the office to create social work experiences.
The author, Dr. David Ribner, has a doctorate in social work and is an ordained Rabbi.
A New Book Teaches Orthodox Jews How to Consummate a Marriage | Ilana Glazer | April 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMatul recently started looking at colleges and hopes to study social work or public policy when she saves up enough money.
Hope Drives Human Trafficking Survivor Lauded By Obama at CGI | Nina Strochlic | September 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMy father expected me to go to college, and he was thrilled when I earned my Master's of social work degree.
Rick Santorum’s War on Pornography Stirs Up the Same Tired Arguments | Kristin Battista-Frazee | March 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFinancial aid and a night job as an office cleaner carried me through, and at 21, I graduated with a degree in social work.
Handcuffs, Ropes, and an Open Window: How I Escaped an Unthinkable Childhood | Genyfer Spark | January 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAt university, she studied social work—more useful in wartime, she thought, than pediatrics.
Possibly no social work in America is more sanely constructive than that of the playground movement.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan HobenYou see my only social work is to rejoice in the labors of others, while I live in luxurious remoteness from all turmoil.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3) | George EliotThe 350 Queen does all the social work, and she does it admirably.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. SherwoodIt is in these local groups perhaps that some of the best experimental social work may be done.
The Psychology of Nations | G.E. PartridgeThe working woman is in fact beginning to show powers, hitherto unsuspected, of social work and political action.
Women in Modern Industry | B. L. Hutchins
British Dictionary definitions for social work
any of various social services designed to alleviate the conditions of the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
Derived forms of social work
- social worker, noun
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