Is Social Work a Profession? #224533

If there is a dancing profession, a baseball profession, an acting profession, a nursing profession, an artistic proies sion, a musical profession, a literary profession, a medical profession, and a legal profession — to mention no others — the term profession is too vague to be fought for. We may as well let down the bars and permit people to call themselves professional, for no better reason than that they choose in this way to appropriate whatever of social distinction may still cling to a term obviously abused.