| Sumario: | A comparison was made across five values between teachers and social workers. It was suggested that the two occupations differed in their relation to their clientele with the teacher having more authority over children than the social workers over their adult clients. Teachers customarily worked in a more monocratic bureaucratic organization than the social workers. The teachers' task was to transmit more or less standard and accepted forms of knowledge and values, whereas social workers were attempting to change personality and values where change was not clearly legitimated. To demonstrate that such differences may lead to differences in values, it was shown that there was an overall difference in values between the two professions. Secondly, it was shown that where schools were experimentally altered to social work type structures, the teachers were more likely to have social work values. In addition, when ordinary schools were divided into two groups--one of which resembled social work goals and structures (i.e., elementary versus secondary)--the teachers were more likely to hold social work values. Finally, it was pointed out that there was a contextual school building effect so that minority members adopted values of majority members in the building.
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