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Evaluate the Significance of Socilogy To Understand Social Work Practice.
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EVALUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCILOGY TO UNDERSTAND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. Sociology comes from the Latin word 'socius', which means people and the Greek word 'logos', that means study of. Macaronis and Plummer (cited in Cree 2001:1) describe sociology as "the systematic, sceptical study of human sociology." By studying sociology we can gain an insight into why people have social problems and make sense of them by not necessarily blaming the individual. We can achieve this by looking at the societies that people live in and the roles that they play in that community. I will briefly describe the three main sociological perspectives and some more recent contemporary ones. I will also evaluate the significance of sociology to social work practice, in particular to older people and discuss ageism as a social problem. Sociology covers many subjects such as religion, class, ethnicity, sex, race, education and crime to name but a few. Society...
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