Example sentences of "social [noun pl] work " in BNC.

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1 Such social researchers work for survey research agencies , in central and local government research divisions , commercial market research companies , and academic research posts .
2 Add social activities to work activities .
3 Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ?
4 The first studies were in coal mines where there were different degrees of mechanisation associated with the same type of working group and it was also possible to distinguish different social organisations working in similar technical environments ( Trist and Murray , 1948 ) .
5 Do individual social workers work in different ways in teams of different organizational types ?
6 Social workers work in an imperfect world .
7 Psychiatric social workers work with doctors , obtaining reports on the patients ' home situation and helping patients retain contact with the outside world .
8 However , our research indicates that this is not happening , primarily because there has been a failure in most parts of the world to recognize or accept the critical role played by paraprofessionals in social service delivery , little effort has been devoted to the clarification of appropriate paraprofessional roles and functions and to their training and deployment , and too few social work education programmes are training social workers to work alongside paraprofessional personnel .
9 For example , they show how French governments in the 1980s challenged social workers to work with others to prevent crime , delinquency and exclusion .
10 This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’
11 For residential and field social workers to work together a bridge has to be found .
12 There is one plan to link staff in with workers from voluntary agencies , and another to train social workers to work with interpreters , gain confidence in working with the Chinese community and respond better to its problems .
13 The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations .
14 Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) .
15 We should remember that neither Marx nor Engels , his co-author , proposed a theory of crime ; and it has been later social theorists working within a Marxist framework who have developed a Marxist theory of crime .
16 How political and social systems work , how disadvantage and oppression are established and maintained is not easy to make visible , and it is the visible which is privileged in the hierarchy of discourses within the classic realist text .
17 Very often these intentions demand interventions outside the local authority itself , so that policy becomes subject to a whole range of local social conditions and other social actors working in quite different contexts .
18 Finally , social services works out what it needs to pay towards the cost of the place .
19 The proposed plan of action focuses on the way health and social services work together to provide services to those in need , particularly elderly people , including :
20 They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists .
21 I am more concerned with the ways in which social mechanisms work to permit the growth and refinement of abilities necessary for sporting involvement .
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