Public Interest Groups

Public interest groups play a key role in representative democracy and help to develop the political and social systems. They can achieve this through sharing mutual goals with democratic affairs and influencing political decisions. Public interest groups are also linked with the social work profession because they both function by working to better the lives of people, and eventually society as a whole. Politics and social work are closely related and both have a purpose in each other’s work.

Public interest groups are formed to promote a position on a particular issue in hopes of gaining interest from the public; the main focus of public interest groups is to help the people. By nature, a representative democracy is founded on the …show more content…
Social work is defined as a profession whose primary concern is helping those in need, but it also focuses on promoting social change, problem solving and influencing the well-being of a community as a whole. Social work renders services by providing psychological-counselling, assistance and guidance. There are many goals social workers aim to achieve in order to enhance and better society. First, social workers work towards becoming capable of integrating values, skills and knowledge so that they can apply these techniques when working with families, individuals, communities, institutions, groups and organization. Another mind sight of social workers is to educate people of all ages to provide leadership, be exemplary, and to be informed and inform others about being a professional and competent human in society. Social work also prepares workers to engage in social activities …show more content…
Political decisions affect the economy, the quality of the environment, the freedoms people can experience etc. Politics is a network of forces that produce a varying distribution of power. It examines the effects this power has on not only subjectivity, but also social relationships. For the field of social work, and social workers, this means that the politics of social work centers on the structure and organization of political relationships within a multitude of settings and surroundings, as well as the relationship between clients and their environment. Power is not only personal, but rather a combination of personal and structural. Power therefore, pre-determines relationships with clients, at both an inter-personal and structural level. Therefore, politics, public interest groups and social work are all connected because the goals of each profession are to reach the best interests of all people involved, whether directly or