Work

The Occupational Prestige of Social Work

Year: 1980
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: A survey of two hundred and fifty six social work educators pertaining to the prestige of social workers indicated that social workers were viewed as havinq less prestige than fourteen of the twenty-two occupations with whom they were compared. Factors both contributing to and lessening the prestige of social work were identified, as well as suggestions for enhancing social work's prestige.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W615931624
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Cites: 18
Cited by: 7
Related to: 10