OPINIONS OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS FROM TURKEY ON POVERTY AND WEALTH
Associate Professor Sema Buz, Associate Professor Ozlem Cankurtaran Ontas, Research Assistant Burcu Hatiboglu

Abstract
Council on Social Work Education draws attention to the necessity that curriculum of social work education should include groups at risk as well as focusing on development of social and economic equality. This need to focus puts the explanations about the reasons of poverty and the need to discuss it with wealth forward. For this reason, this study reveals the opinions of social work students about poverty and wealth with the formulation built by using Feagin's poverty scale. The results show that, students preferred to provide structural explanations to interpret poverty and wealth but they did not mention economic and social inequality in their interpretations

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