Social Problems in Brasov City. The Perspective of Social Workers from the Private Sector
Social Problems in Brasov City. The Perspective of Social Workers from the Private Sector

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of research conducted with socialworkers from the private sector in Brasov city. Data was collected using thefocus-group method. The participants were social workers who work withdifferent vulnerable groups and in different non-governmentalorganizations. Data obtained were analysed using thematic coding, whichresulted in four main categories, each with a variety of sub-categories Forexample, the fourth category, the social workers' visions regarding the mostefficient solutions of current social problems, has different subcategories,which were : changes of national strategy, changes in the human resource inthe system, and development of new social services. Solving social problemscan be done either from the outside (inducing a point of view that isidentified with the official policy of state institutions) or from the inside(identifiable with the vision of the minority groups involved in these socialproblems).

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