Abstract
As social justice is an essential social work concept, this study examined the factors that influenced the attitudes of social workers in Taiwan toward social justice through an analysis of Social Justice Scale-TW (SJS-TW) questionnaires conducted on a sample of 276 social workers. It was found that years of work experience, human rights training, and past participation in social protests were important moderating factors of supporting social justice. It was concluded that including a human rights–based approach in social work education has the potential to increase the social workers’ knowledge of and actions in support of social justice.
Highlights
The social work profession values social justice in research and practice (Maschi et al, 2011; Rountree & Pomeroy, 2010; Sewpaul & Jones, 2004; Takahashi, 2007; Wolf, 2013)
The mean score for the Social Justice Scale-TW (SJS-TW) was 135.01, which indicated that overall, the participants had positive attitudes toward social justice
The Kaiser–Myer–Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (KMO) statistic must be 0.60 or higher to proceed with factor analysis; in this case, as the KMO was 0.93, the four dimensions of the SJS-TW were found to account for 64.98% of the variance
Summary
The social work profession values social justice in research and practice (Maschi et al, 2011; Rountree & Pomeroy, 2010; Sewpaul & Jones, 2004; Takahashi, 2007; Wolf, 2013). One of the core values that the National Union of Licensed Social Workers, Taiwan, set as the Professional Code of Ethics is social justice (National Union of Licensed Social Workers, 2018). Because the social work profession mediates between the societally excluded and those in power, this study sought to gain a preliminary understanding of what facilitated the current social workers’ attitudes toward social justice in an East Asian context using Taiwan as an example. It was hypothesized that work experience, exposure to human rights education, and participation in the social protests in the past affect social workers’ attitudes and behaviors toward social justice
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