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The Decline Of The Public Intellectual In Social Work, Howard Jacob Karger, Marie Theresa Herndndez
The Decline Of The Public Intellectual In Social Work, Howard Jacob Karger, Marie Theresa Herndndez
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This article examines reasons for social work's abandonment of public discourse, activism and intellectual life. It also explores strategies to encourage the profession to reenter public life and develop a modern cadre of social work identified public intellectuals. Specifically, this process entails professional and academic reform and a renewed vision around the social justice mission of social work.