Level of Sociological Knowledge Among Health and Social Workers

Abstract

The communication and utilization of scientific findings is a multi-step process, with data originating with the scientists and terminating with the lay public, but mediated by practitioner groups who work with the public. The present study was designed to measure the extent to which practitioner groups who are (or who could be) intermediaries between sociologists and the public are informed concerning some findings of sociology which have practical implications for their own work. The study revealed that the health and social workers held a very limited amount of correct information concerning the culture of poverty and its relation to health.

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