ETHICS – CONCEPT AND APPLICABILITY IN SOCIAL WORK
ETHICS – CONCEPT AND APPLICABILITY IN SOCIAL WORK

Summary/Abstract: Understanding ethics is fundamental to us as individuals because a healthy ethics is the very essence of a civilized society. Ethics is the foundation on which all our relationships are built. It addresses how we behave towards entrepreneurs, employees, colleagues, clients, subordinates, suppliers, generally to the community we are in. Talking about ethics in the field of social assistance, politics, economy, at the organization level, is today fashionable, it is even a novelty. However, there is a clear lack of ethics in these areas. Ethical standards are often found among universal values. Speaking of universal values, we must admit that universality supposes first of all diversity. Living in society implies the necessity of the emergence and perpetuation of relations between its members. Although respect for ethical principles must govern the whole set of human interactions (family, business, friendship, etc.), in this analysis we only consider the ethical foundation of the relationships circumscribed to the specific environment of social assistance. Social work as a profession builds its system of values, starting from respecting the dignity and integrity of the human being and recognizing democracy as an essential requirement of social life. The main empirical data collection methods used in this paper are: observation and social documents analysis. Style research approach will be both qualitatively and quantitative perspective. Quantitative research will highlight the numerical measurements of specific aspects of the phenomena studied with the aim of testing causal hypotheses, whereas qualitative research paradigms will be based on a kind of postmodern ones. In this paper we present some of the theoretical considerations on the development of ethics in Romania and globally perspective. This paper aims to outline a picture of contemporary applicability of ethics through a general analysis and point some prospects regarding this subject.

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