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The Crisis of our Time and the End of the New “History”-Juniper Publishers

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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction The time has come to understand that we are facing an anthropological and not economic crisis as it is reductively defined; it is the failure of a socio-cultural model that has erased the fundamental human rights inscribed in 1948. The response to the crisis [1] as anthropological is in understanding the cultural and historical path that has brought us to chaos, overthrowing the dominant paradigm, to place man and society at the centre of our interests as an end and to bring economics back to its natural role as a means. The technical culture, master of the world, as defined by Emanuele Severino, has unnaturally transformed economics as a social science into an exact science; in the exact sciences we study the relationships between measurable things to define universal laws, but in the social sciences, such as economics, we study relationships between men where human subjectivity does not allow def...

Service User Inclusion in Social Work Education, a Factor Analysis-Juniper Publishers

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            Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Social Work Education in the United States Social work curricula across the United States lacks service user inclusion in the education of social workers, despite the trademark of the profession being service user oriented. Social work education in the United States requires a four-year undergraduate degree, or a two-year graduate degree, in social work. Both undergraduate and graduate social work degrees require students to complete internship hours working with individuals, families, groups, communities and/or organizations, with the goal of enabling and encouraging the application of social work-related knowledge, skills and values covered during classroom instruction (theory) within real-life settings (practice). For many students, the internship serves as the first encounter with service users of social service organizations, meaning they may have little-to-no understandi...

No Money in Social Work - Negotiating Compensation for Social Workers-Juniper Publishers

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       Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Labor Statistics Comparison Between Social Work and Nursing According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2019), the median annual salary for all social workers in the United States as of May 2017 was $47,980 ($10,290 more than the median annual salary for all occupations in the US economy combined), with the lowest 10% earning less than $29,560 and the highest 10% earning more than $79,740. In comparison, the median annual salary for all registered nurses in the Unites States was $70,000 ($32,310 more than the median annual salary for all occupations in the US economy combined), with the lowest 10% earning less than $48,690 and the highest 10% earning more than $104,100. As of 2017, the median salary for US registered nurses was $22,020 higher than the median salary for US social workers. Looking back, between 2000 and 2001, the median annual salary for US social workers was $37,694 L...