Professional Role Orientations and Conflict Strategies

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This paper explores the social action effects of the role orientations of social workers. A bureaucratic orientation is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and a professional orientation—when taken alone—is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client orientation. Some possible explanations and implications are offered.

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