The emergence and development of social work

Abstract

The profession of social service is considered  in its modern sense from the twentieth century, it is a newly established profession or job, but its first emergence date back to the beginning of human history, since ancient times people have to cooperate and provide social services to each other, where religious and human motivations had a great role in providing helps to weak and elderly members of the society,  The social welfare activities carried out by human groups and societies since the dawn of history were the first seeds of the profession,  its appearance as a specialized profession was a result of several experiences and efforts to face human problems, and the rapid changes that accompanied the industrial revolution and the complexity of life and increased pressure, in the period which the social systems failed to face it.

The social service has made great progress during the twentieth century, it became based on science, and this profession specializes in the management ofbasic social relations between individuals, groups and systems and its function is to provide assistance, support and aids and solve individual, collective and community problems

In this article, we will attempt to address the historical development of the social service profession through times.

Keywords: service, développement, social care, social service