Professionalization,Community Action and the Growth of Social Service Bureaucracies

See, for example, Donnison D. V. : ‘Seebohm: The Report and its Implications’, Social Work (U.K.) Vol. 25, No. 4, Oct. 1968.

See Elliott A. : ‘A Look Back or a Step Forward’, Social Work (U.K.), op. cit. ‘Even the charitable must conclude that the Seebohm Committee seems to have little affection either for medical practitioners or for health departments … the fact remains that the doctor still occupies a unique place in English society and still has, if he will use it, the capacity to guide and lead in the use and application of social services.’

Report of the Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services, Comnd. 3703, London, 1968.

See, however, Pinker R. A. : Social Theory and Social Policy, Heinemann, London, 1971, for a full discussion of the problem of stigma.

See Seebohm Report, op. cit., para 474.

Rosenbaum S. : ‘Social Services Manpower’, Central Statistical Office, Social Trends No. 2., London, HMSO, 1971.

See especially Blau P. M. Scott R. W. : Formal Organisation, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1963.

Reissmann L. : ‘A Study of Rôle Conceptions in Bureaucracy’ in Stein H. D. Cloward R. A. (Eds.): Social Perspectives on Behaviour, Free Press, 1961.

Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Welfare Office, The Needs of New Communities, HMSO, London, 1967.

Report of the Committee on Housing in Greater London, Cmnd. 2605, HMSO, London, 1965.

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, People and Planning, HMSO, London, 1969.

See Halmos P : The Personal Service Society, Constable, London, 1970 and The Faith of the Counsellors, Constable, London, 1965.

See Timms N. : Psychiatric Social Work in Great Britain (1939–1962), Roudedge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964.

See Leonard P. : ‘The Application of Sociological Analysis to Social Work Training’, Brit. J. Sociology, Vol. XIX, No. 4, December 1968.

Greenwood E. : ‘Attributes of a Profession’ in Zald M. (Ed.): Social Welfare Institutions, John Wiley, London, 1965.

Johnson T. J. : Professions and Power, Macmillan, London, 1972.

See Goldberg E. M. : Helping the Aged, A Field Experiment in Social Work, Allen and Unwin, London, 1970.

See, for example, Cohen S. (Ed.): Images of Deviance, Penguin, 1971.

Parsons T. : ‘The Professions and Social Structure’ in Essays in Sociological Theory, Revised Edition, Free Press, 1964.

Blau P. M. Scott R. W. : op. cit.

Epstein I. : ‘Professional Rôle Orientations and Conflict Strategies’, Social Work (U.S.A.), Vol. 15, No. 4, October 1970.

Rein M. : ‘The Crossroads for Social Work’, Social Work (U.K.), October 1970.