Social workers are people who uphold social work values ​​and use professional social work methods to engage in professional social services.

Characteristics of social workers: 1. Recognize and follow the values ​​of social work 2. Take social welfare as a career 3. Master certain social work professional methods 4. Obtain professional recognition 5. Comprehensive use of social work knowledge, theories and methods, Providing social services effectively

The meaning of social roles: (Sociological concept) Social roles refer to a set of behavioral norms that are suitable for people's positions in social relationships. It points out what people in a certain position in society should do, and reflects the responsibilities, rights and obligations of social members in that position.

The role of social workers

Function is a concept used to express the interdependence between different parts of a system. (Structural Functionalism) Parsons believes that any social system is an internal division of labor and an interdependent whole. Each part of the system plays a positive role, that is, a function, in the existence and effective operation of the system, thereby achieving the balance and stability of the system.

Types of functions: 1. Positive function and anti-function 2. Explicit function and implicit function 3. Ultimate function and intermediate function

Functions of social workers: maintain social order; promote social change (reform)

Helping functions: helping others (the basic function of social work); rescuing; resolving difficulties (material, spiritual, and social relations); development (promoting ability development)

Social order: 1. The stability of the social structure, the relative stability of the relationship between the various components of society 2. The orderliness of social operations, the coordination of the relationships between various parts in the process of change; social order is divided into mandatory order and consent order. Coercive order is an order formed by strong suppression; consent order is an order based on social members' recognition of social norms.

How social workers maintain: 1. Solve social problems 2. Prevent problems 3. Maintain social stability through the implementation and revision of social policies

The consistency and contradiction between helping others and maintaining social stability (a conflict occurs between the social-centered view that emphasizes social order and the individual-centered view that emphasizes people) Social workers' handling of the relationship between helping others and maintaining social order

Social work is the process of using various resources to achieve the goal of helping people (it is a set goal-oriented activity)

Social work process model (practice model): contact with the problem - investigate and identify the problem - analyze and diagnose - provide services - evaluate services - terminate

The organizational model of social work: the organizational model of welfare service providers, the recipients’ help-seeking model, the resource acquisition model and the service provision model; The organizational model of social work under the developed market economy system is professional; Social work under the planned economy system The organizational model is administrative and non-professional

Economic system: The economy is the backbone of social welfare services and social work; Political system: It reflects both macro and micro aspects; Social welfare system: Social work is an integral part of the social welfare system

Process: changes in the economic system, changes in social structure, adjustments in interest patterns, and changes in ideas. Make the decision to comprehensively deepen reform and opening up. Characteristics: Holistic, progressive, asynchronous, coexistence of overall plan and local exploration

In the early days of reform and opening up, rapid economic growth coexisted with frequent and intensified social conflicts. With the focus on the welfare of the people, under the goal of national dual modernization at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, requirements for the development and construction of social work were put forward

path dependence of development

System Innovation

basic characteristics of development