The author of the famous article “Is Social Work a Profession ?” is :
Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner, an American educationist best known for his report on medical education, read the paper ‘Is Social Work a Profession?’ at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, Baltimore, in 1915.
He set out criteria of a profession — intellectual operations with individual responsibility, a base in science and learning, practical ends, an educationally communicable technique, self-organisation and altruistic motivation — and concluded that social work did not yet fully meet them. The paper pushed the field towards professional education and a distinct body of knowledge.
Octavia Hill was a London housing reformer linked with the Charity Organisation Society; Mary Richmond wrote ‘Social Diagnosis’ (1917) and ‘What is Social Case Work?’ (1922); Ernest Greenwood wrote ‘Attributes of a Profession’ (1957). None of them authored the 1915 article.
Hence, the answer is Abraham Flexner.
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