NEGATIVE ATTITUDES

Negative Attitudes

Negative Attitudes

In a democratic society, the persons command the government. Economics divides these persons into two categories—the wealthy and the poor. The poor are not defended from the unbalance of power held by persons who have more cash and social status. Having a high social status almost guarantees access to society's resources. Social mobility is the stage to which, in a democratic society, an individual's social status can change throughout his or her life. All too often though, societal norms—whether implicit or explicit, challenge the standard of social mobility.(Grafton, 2006) Employment, affordable housing, health care, and quality education are not equally distributed in our society because the government addresses the needs of the poor with a market basket approach, which is a repaired standard of dwelling that is set without an explicit quotation to societal norms. This approach implies that the poor deserve to a “basket of goods,” but not a share of financial wealth. Social work seeks to change this pattern of unequal treatment by addressing the social problems caused by inequality. The purpose of social and financial justice, one of the centre professional values, is to change negative attitudes about the poor while employed to create access to better services and goods for them. This advocacy is only productive when social workers have an unambiguous understanding of social institutions, understand who the disadvantaged are, and understand how to campaign for social change on their behalf.

        Institutions are the social practices of groups. Family, belief, education, healthcare, the work place, and government all represent social institutions that rule the way humans interact with each other in society. Social institutions seek to maintain alignment, have purpose and characterise individual and collective roles. For instance, the function of the family is to duplicate, care for the juvenile, socialize new members, regulate ...