SWRK 65

• SWRK


  Social Work
• Social work


  • Promotes social change, problem-solving in human relationships, and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being
  • Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental
  • Theories of human behavior and social systems
• Social change


  Refers to constant creation, negotiation and re-creation of social order
• Types of social change

  • Macro social change
  • Micro social change
• Macro social change


  Alteration in social dynamics, social structures, social institutions, etc. broader scale
• Micro social change


  Changes in the day-to-day interaction between and among individuals or groups
• Patterns of social change

  • Linear
  • Cyclical
  • Dialectical
• Linear social change


  Occurs gradually and steadily over time, and follows straight path
• Cyclical social change


  Occurs in repeating cycles or patterns, "history repeats itself"
• Dialectical social change


  Based on the idea that there's always tension and conflict of opposing forces
• Social transformation


  Changes in societal structures, norms, institutions, etc. in a broad scale intervention
• Social reform


  Improving or changing particular aspects of society and certain issues in a small scale intervention
• Sources of social change

  • Invention
  • Discovery
  • Conflict
  • Ideology
  • Social or political philosophy
• Diffusion


  Act of spreading ideas and ideas thru migration and mass communication
• Neoliberal strategy of privatization is an example of diffusion
• The process of enacting policies and laws is an example of diffusion
• Transformative social work


  The profession has adopted and pursued social work models and interventions that have confronted oppression and exploitation as central issues
• Means of social change

  • Revolution
  • Social action
  • Social movement
  • Development planning
  • Free the market and roll back state
  • Legislative action
  • International agreement
  • Planned change
  • Social work intervention
• Revolution


  Radical social change thru armed strategies, victors' favor
• Social action


  Planned collective action to address social issue
• Social movement


  Collective link by common ideas or goals, and launched social actions
• Development planning


  The state or stakeholders assess and prepare courses of action
• Free the market and roll back state

  Neoliberal strategy of privatization
• Legislative action


  Process of enacting policies and laws
• International agreement


  Multilateral/bilateral commitment entered by state representative
• Planned change


  Social change happens through assessment, planning and strategic plan
• Social work intervention


  The process of dealing with the individual, family or community
• Social issues that require social change

  • Positive effect of labor migration
  • Negative effect of labor migration
  • Climate change
  • Greenhouse effect
• Positive effect of labor migration

  Economic benefits and enhanced status
• Negative effect of labor migration

  • Psycho-social effects on left behind family members
  • Alienation from family members
• Climate change


  Increase in average temperature, global warming affects people and environment
• Greenhouse effect


  Energy from the sun drive the Earth's weather and climate and heat on its surface
• Development


  • As a vision, description, or measure of the state being of a desirable society
  • As a historical process of social change in which societies are transformed over long periods
  • Consisting of deliberate efforts aimed at improvement on a sector in society
• Four issues surrounding the definition of development (Sue Ellen Charlton)

  • The role of ethical and moral choice in development
  • The structure of the international system in the late twentieth century
  • The influence and in some instances, domination of western norms and institutions in development concepts and policies
  • The political control of development
• Development as freedom


  According to Amartya Sen, main purpose of development is to spread freedom and thousand charms to the unfree citizens
• Development


  • Means improving the quality of life in all aspects (social, cultural, political, economic, ecological, etc)
  • The process that takes us from our current reality to a vision of the future that benefits all of mankind
• Developmental


  It characterizes a sustained capacity to achieve a better life for all
• Perspective


  A "viewpoint", a way of describing something of interest in general terms and does not offer a researchable terms
• Development perspectives

  • Economic perspective
  • Sociological perspective
• Economic perspective


  • According to Seers (1979) the purpose of development is to reduce poverty
  • According to Sen (1999) development involves reducing deprivation and broadening choice