Public perception of social work in Havlíčkův Brod

The theme of this bachelor thesis is devoted to the topic of perception of social work from the point of view of the residents of Havlíčkův Brod. The aim of this work was to find out how social work is perceived by a selected group of inhabitants and also what is the awareness of a given group of people about social work. In the first chapter of the theoretical part we will learn about the field of social work, what social work is, what it can be beneficial for, but also about its not quite positively evaluated properties. Furthermore, we will learn about the role of social workers, who inherently belong to social work, and thanks to them, social work can be conducted. In the last part we will learn about social perception, and factors that can influence it in social work. The quantitative research strategy was used to achieve the goal of the work and data collection was conducted by questioning based on a own questionnaire. The research sample consisted of the inhabitants of Havlíčkův Brod. In total, I received questionnaires from 314 respondents. The data were processed using descriptive statistics in program MS Excel and hypothesis were evaluated in the program SPSS, using t-test and correlation. The research results of this bachelor thesis could serve as a source of information on the quality of social work for the public. The problem is very low prestige of social work in the Czech Republic. People do not realize that even a social worker is important in their lives, such as in old age, unemployment, etc. I consider it desirable to improve awareness of the overall scope of social work. To which social workers will be able to contribute by presenting themselves well in order to increase their prestige