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The Place and Role of Sociologists in the Area of Employment
Dubravka Uglješić
; USIZ za zapošljavanje, Osijek
Abstract
In this attempt to define the place and role of sociologists in the area of employment. I have given a short survey of the tasks which follow from the Constitution and Resolutions of the tenth Congress of the League of Yugoslav Communists concerning more effective employment and opening up of new jobs. In so doing. I have proceeded from the statements that:
— the profession of sociologists is to be regarded as identical with the profession of social workers and politicians;
— the role and place of sociologists in the area of employment follows from the Employment Act itself;
— the actual role of sociologists in realization of constitutional labor rights is through application of priority criteria at the time of employment and an active policy of employment.
Moreover, a survey is given of problems which sociologists in the area of employment have dealt with in the past.
Several conclusions are drawn:
— the majority of sociologists work in teaching the fundamentals of Marxism and the theory and practice of self-management and sociology, and have their own program of work,
— a second, smaller group of sociologists work in work organizations, self-managing communities of interest, socio-political organizations and institutions and the like. Very often they are not in a position to determine their own role and tasks which is partially a mistake of educational institutions; that is, of faculties who train this profile of professionals.
— one can say that sociologists who are in urban centers are in a privileged position primarily because of accessibility to professional literature, the most recent research in the field of sociology, professional consultations and the like,
— at the level of the Sociological Association it is necessary to active a section of sociologists in regional centers. Perhaps by so doing it would be possible to escape a certain »wandering« and identification of the profession itself and activity of the sociologist with that of the social worker and other professionals.
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156078
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Publication date:
31.12.1978.
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