Top 5 Founding Father of Social Work

TOP 5 FOUNDING FATHER OF SOCIAL WORK

 According to me, Sociology is a term of social study where a human being can interact with each other. In a geographical area where a  group of people interacts, share culture, traditions, and customs with having different classes, races and genders also practice values beliefs, faith. Society has its own rules and regulations bearing language, dress patterns, food patterns with such cultures. There are several definitions related to sociology.

There are a lot of people do a lot of remarkable contributions to society. But, few of them have a larger impact to the society.

1.        Jane Addams

§  Her contribution to the social work journey has started from 1860-1935. Her name is permanently cemented in the social work history

§  She has put her efforts for women, child laborers, the poor, uneducated, immigrants, etc.

§  Also, she was a social activist and she joined hands with lobbyists, public speaking, offering support for the Women’s  suffrage, the anti-war movement, urban sanitation movement and much more.

§  She awarded as a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

2.       Alfred Neumann

§ He was one of the most substantial and inspiring contributions to the social work journey.

§  He forms an organization the Jewish Family and Children’s Services at Colorado. Which refers to a group that was housed protected and advocated for fleeing Jewish family.

§  After shifted to the United States he received his Master in Social Work in 1941, then he joined to  work with Jewish Family and children services agencies.

§  Later he promoted to executive director from 1948 to 1976. And after his retirement, Alfred continued the work and bring some changes in the high level.

§  At last he worked as a consulting officer on economic opportunity and Head Start programs. And he trained much staff to be volunteers.

3.       Frances Feldman

§  Frances Feldman, she stared her career on the Human Experience and based on her experiment she needs changes

§  She is the woman, who exposed discrimination against cancer in the year of 1970. Her main objective was to bring permanent policy changes.

§  As a result, many states changed their policy legislation for, to treat people as one fairly in the working places.

§  From the year 1934 to 1982, she engaged in public welfare, family services, faculty counseling, etc. Also, she published the book on the Significance of money on social and psychological.

§  In US there is 300 branches according to her services.

4.       Ida B. Wells

§  A prominent social worker, who became a bridge for the Americans and Africans throughout the South face.

§  She had one of the dropout children and she struggled for her career. At the age of 16, she lost her parents. Later days she needs justice, and think the welfare of the citizens She, purely work for the racial change. During her childhood to death, she forcibly suffered like anything.

§  Wells, after she faces some challenges she worked on racial issues throughout the south. Also, she created social action through propagation  and anti-lynching campaigns

§  She wrote newspapers and published it like the New York Age.

§  She also created the NAACP.

5.        Mahatma Gandhi

§  Our national father aslo known as social worker doubtlessly. Gandhi ji learned many things from Americans after he came to India he interrupted practiced of nonviolent protest.

§  Gandhi fought for peace. He gave a moral speech and his contribution towards society bring great change. He is known as both peaceful protester and lawyer too.

§  He is called by many titles.

          There might be some invisible social a worker whose contribution is not visible to the society but, the whole world will remember to them through there good deeds.

“We are not in it for the Income

We are in it for the Outcome”