AbstractsSociology

The role and function of the volunteer in social work.

by Esther Wilson. Kerry




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Sociology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1939
Keywords: Social service.
Record ID: 1579934
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile131502.pdf


Abstract

Note: Some text in spine could not be scanned. Social work is a new profession and into its function there enter many people who are not professional social workers. Members of the older professions - medical, clerical, legal, teaching - and business men, their wives, their mothers, their daughters and sisters, meet with professional workers around conference tables, budget and are responsible for income, and give special services to particular social agencies. The term volunteer is older than the term social worker, and there is difference of opinion as to its scope. In some cities those people who serve on boards of management, restrict that designation to the younger people who have definite duties in the weekly routine of social agencies. Elsewhere it applies to both types of service. In this study it is used in the wider significance to include all those who serve one or more social agencies in any capacity, without financial remuneration. [...]