Scope of Medical Social Work in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the department of social service operates hospital social service programs. There are many scope of medical social work in our country. Now we can discuss about the scope –

Concept of Medical Social Work

Medical social work is a method of modern social work by which social work knowledge, methods and strategies are used in medical sector.

 According to, Robert L. Barker 1995 has defined – “The medical social work practice that occurs in hospitals and other health care Settings to facilitate good health, prevent illness, and aid physically ill patients and their families to resolve the social and psychological problems related to the illness.”

Problems and Prospects of Medical Social Work in SWOP

Medical social work is a sub discipline of social work. It provides a comprehensive service for human beings. It covers all the aspects of human life, like economic, social, health care, recreational and emotional settings. The development of social work profession was started from medical setting. With the increased understanding that illness can be caused or execrated by a variety of social or psychological factors. social work has gained a more central role in this field.

Background of Social Welfare Outreach Project

Social Welfare Outreach Project (SWOP) is a special Health Care Project of World Vision Bangladesh. This project started in May 1985 with a view to provide secondary and Tertiary medical assistance to the children and adults of the WVB projects with preference to the Sponsored children who are medically and physically handicapped.

Social and economic Security for Democracy

Economic security is essential for the successful working of democracy. The people should be given the right to work and it is the duty of the government to provide them with suitable employment. In case, the government is unable to provide it to the people, it should at least provide them with shelter, clothing and food. Besides, social security is also essential.

Social Profiles

Social profiles are a description of individuals’ social characteristics that identify them on social media sites such as Face book. Profiles describe any number of characteristics about individuals. It describes interests, expertise, professional affiliations, status, recent activity and geographic location.

Social Definition of Crime

Though ‘crime’ refers to a multidimensional thinking of committing any act which has harmful effect and legal sanction for the violation of law but it could be explored from different perspectives observed in a society. The social definition of crime could be referred to the following: ‘’Any anti-social act which penetrates the statuesque of the society due to the action of the individual for the disintegration of himself to the society and if the act causes any violation of social order or the social norms, that specified act can be treated as a crime.’ (Giddens, 2006) Usually, the penalty or sanctions for the misdeeds are applied by the society either formally or informally to the violator of the social order to reinforce the social norms. Laws are the social norms defined and enforced by the governments of any country to restrict those anti-social behaviors, which are meant as crimes.

Social Prestige of Women in Contest of Grameen Shikkha

In patriarchal society women are considered as dependent and subordinate to men because male are the descendant of family. So the birth of a boy is a festival of joy in a family and it is prestigious. To welcome him Ajan in read with respect. But when a girl is born she is counted as a burden of family. Because father has to marriage her with dowry and she is not the income earner. Picture of most of the villages are same (Alakhuddin-2003). But time is changing now. At present girls are also considered as a subject of prestige for their father due to their merit and performance.

The Social functions of education

The basic dual function :

Each person is prepared by society for future life within it. However trite this statement may it contains the basis for analyzing the function of education. The school system is a deliberate attempt to maintain the normative and action pattorne of socioty by influencing its now entrants. In any society is an interplay between the normative and behavior patterns and the school is often forced to play the role of reference in maintaining values while facing the realities of actual behavior.

The Social environment of the institution of education

Two aspects of social environment are important in the study of education –taht of the child and that of the system . This is not to say, of course, that there are two environments, but only that there are two important perspectives from which the social process may be viewed in both cases the environmental consists of intersecting and overlapping social groups and institutions. In looking at the school as a social establishment. surrounded by other groups we have to discover the extent to which it is able to control its own life There is however. a much more complicated level at which the influencing takes place, in this case, we have to look, at the extent to which the value –system and behavior bitterns oof outside groups interpenetrate those held by the personnel of the school. A simple diagram illustrates relations between the four elements. Relationships.

The social Process of Interpersonal evaluation

There are certain forces acting in any situation where one which B has learned in his own social experience. Thus a judged according to critora, which B has learned. in his own social experience. Thus a teacher might be rated highly by her hoad teacher because of the sobriety or her dress, but be coolly received by her girls pupils because she is dowdy, or the reverse a teacher rejected for appointment in one school because she was too dressy might be great success in another the girls feels she take care or her appearance.

Education in a social establishment

A social establishment is any place surrounded by fixed barriers of perception in which a particulars kinds of activity regularly take place we have suggested that any social establishment may be studied profitable form the point of view of impressions management. within the wall of social establishment we find a team of perfomers who co-operate to present to an audience a given definition of the situation. This will indlude the conception of own team and of audience and assumptions concerning the ethos that is to be maintained by rules of politeness indecorum.