Gelisim News

Expressing that the coronavirus epidemic is a major social, psychological and economic crisis, Yolcuoğlu stated that new and functional social sociology can be established by giving high importance to social sciences. Yolcuoğlu said: “It is now accepted all over the world that the problems of social events and facts in families, groups and organizations cannot be solved according to the information of a single discipline. Social reality and epidemic, famine, and other major social events do not adhere to the artificial distinctions of social sciences and occur as a whole. However, since this social reality is often difficult to understand as a whole, it has been necessary to divide it into parts that are the subject of different disciplines. Sociology, social anthropology, psychology, social work, and other disciplines and science branches were born in this way.”

Yolcuoğlu added: “The important point here is the acceptance of the fact that it is imperative to do interdisciplinary studies in the world where modern science prevails in order to make correct judgments about social reality as a result of examining the individual parts.”

“BEHAVIOR BETWEEN PEOPLE SHOULD BE EXAMINED”

Touching on the need to examine how people affect each other in the coronavirus crisis, Yolcuoğlu said: “What are people's behaviors, emotions, and behaviors? How does the structure of social relationships between people change? For these reasons, behavioral changes and transformations of families, religious groups, gangs, large organizations, factories, universities, communities and societies should be examined and considered in this epidemic process.”

“PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT SHOULD BE PROVIDED”

Social Service Specialist Prof. Dr. İsmet Galip Yolcuoğlu from Istanbul Gelisim University, who stated that social work science focuses on the idea of ​​social justice and the individual's well-being, concluded his words as follows: “Science tries to organize socio-economic conditions, to support the well-being of all individuals who make up the society and to meet their basic needs. It tries to prevent individuals from deviating from devastating diseases from money and poverty and to prevent and eliminate the risks that threaten the well-being of the individual, and organizes the system. For this reason, the Ministry of Social Services should coordinate the work of a social service professor, tens of thousands of social workers should be employed in these services, and their well-being should be supported by reaching all families, especially elderly, disabled and poor, unemployed families, and by providing “psychosocial support”. It is imperative that such individuals be rescued from negative living conditions, rehabilitated and promoted well-being, be able to perform their necessary professional interventions and make repairs in individuals' lives in order to survive as an “honorable member” of the society.”