On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:48:09PM -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote:
You seem to be saying that only the ones you hate are social workers, what you call the "nanny state" (a dead giveaway of POV) and I call the "cruel orphan warden" hypothesis (smarty-pants version of same), and all the others are something else. But, at least in the states, they all go to social work school and they all call themselves social worker and no amount of bluster will change it, although I grant the terminology may be different in Canada.
We could make a note of that then; when people talk about "social workers" they are generally talking about implementors of government social engineering policies and legislation, but the term itself has a broader meaning in the United States.
Jonathan