Social Work (Social Policy) Used as a Tool of Social Control

This article aims to define and describe social work (social policy) as a social control tool. This article analyzes and studies social work’s implications as a social control tool on social, cultural, economic, and political aspects. This article also illustrates social control’s implication on the political, social welfare, Social work, and social work implications as a social control tool in social work future research. The author uses the method of critical thinking by shed lighting the sociologists’ definitions of social control, the purposes of social control, and its forms in the community. The author aims to raise awareness among social workers about the importance of their role to defend the profession of social work to meet people’s needs and maintain social stability. They may do so by playing a mediate role between achieving government policy plans and meeting people’s needs by using the government needs to social workers’ services as an opportunity to apply the social work profession and empower people in need to easy access to the community resources and meet their needs and maintains social stability and economic prosperity.