DISCUSSION ONE: SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
DISCUSSION ONE: SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
A. SOCIAL CHANGE
Why should social workers be interested in social change?
- Social work promotes social change, problem-solving in human relationships, and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environment. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.
SOCIAL CHANGE IS:
SOCIAL CHANGE IS:
- Changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions, occurring over time with profound and long-term consequences.
- Significant alteration of social structures (patterns of action and interaction), including consequences and manifestations of such structures embodied in norms (rules of conduct), values, and cultural products or symbols.
- A shift in the characteristics of culture and society.
- Transformation of culture, behavior, social institutions, and social structure over time.
- Entrepreneurial growth depends on the ethical value system of the society.
- Social change as evolution of human knowledge; societies progress through predictable stages.
- M. Ginsberg saw Social Change as "A change in social structure, such as the size of society, the composition or balance of its parts, or the type of organization
- Social Change refers to the changes that occur in people's life patterns.