I.
A. Social Change
B. Development
C. Development as
Freedom
D. Social Development
E. Economic development
F. Participatory development
(Development: for whom or to
whom)
G. Sustainable
development/Environmental
Perspective
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 (IASSW & IFSW, 2001)
NATURE OF SOCIAL CHANGE: MAIN
CHARACTERISTICS
i. Social Change is a universal
phenomenon
Social change occurs in all societies.
No society remains completely static.
II. Social Change is
community change
Change can be called social
change whose influence can be
felt in a community form.
Social change is social and not
individual.
Bulb Fields by Vincent Van Gogh, 1883
Occurs so slowly
that it is often not
noticed by those
who live in them.
Bulb Fields by Vincent Van Gogh, 1883
(IV) NATURE
AND SPEED OF
SOCIAL
CHANGE IS
AFFECTED BY
AND RELATED
TO TIME
FACTOR
4. Our needs
keep on
1.Change is
changing.
the law of
2. Social change 3. To satisfy our
nature. may occur either in desire for change
the natural course and our changing
or as a result of needs social
planned efforts. change becomes a
necessity.
It is difficult to Likewise, it
make any cannot be
predicted as to
prediction what shall be
about the our attitudes,
exact forms of ideas, norms
and values in
social change.
future.
VII. Social change shows
chain-reaction sequence
A society’s pattern of living is a Therefore, change in one of
dynamic system of inter-related these parts usually reacts on
parts.
others and those on additional
ones until they bring a change
in the whole mode of life of
many people.
VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE RESULTS FROM
THE INTERACTION OF A NUMBER OF
FACTORS
Social phenomena are mutually
interdependent
IX .SOCIAL CHANGE ARE
CHIEFLY THOSE OF
MODIFICATION OR OF
REPLACEMENT
*It may be modification of
physical goods or social
relationships.
*Change also takes the form of
replacement, old ideas have been
replaced by new ideas.
Three Types of Change that affect
health and
Human Service Providers
People-focused Technological Structural Change
change Change
Centers on alteration of Alterations in the process of Deals with how units within a
values, knowledge and service delivery, those system relate to one another.
skills activities and procedures
that guide policy and Ex. Reprivatization of
In dealing with oppression program implementation. services
we need to change the
client’s values, knowledge & Ex. Computerized mgt of
skills. information systems
- e.g., family structures;
alteration in gender dynamics
- Changes in the day-to-day
interaction between and among
individuals or groups
DEVELOPMENTAL
PERSPECTIVE
The developmental perspective in social work is a
theoretical framework that helps social workers
understand how individuals grow and change
throughout their lives. This perspective is crucial in
social work as it helps in understanding the
individual's behavior in the context of their life
stage and experiences.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL
PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL WORK
FOCUSES ON:
a. How human behavior changes throughout the
life course
c. How people adapt and stay the same over time
d. How human behavior is learned from interacting
with the environment
DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM
Development as
Freedom is both the
Primary END and
Primary MEANS!
SEN’S VIEW OF DEVELOPMENT:
THE PROCESS OF EXPANDING
HUMAN FREEDOM
“development requires the removal
of major sources of unfreedom:
poverty as well as tyranny, poor
economic opportunities as well as
systemic social deprivation, neglect
of public facilities as well as
intolerance or overactivity of
repressive states”.
*This is because
*Sen claims that democratic
“no famine has governments “have
ever taken place to win elections and
face public criticism,
in the history of and have strong
the world in a incentive to
functioning undertake measures
democracy”. to avert famines and
other catastrophes”.
FIVE TYPES OF INTERRELATED
FREEDOMS
●political freedom, Note: The state has a role
●economic facilities, in supporting freedoms by
●social opportunities, providing public
●transparency and education, health care,
social safety nets, good
●security. macroeconomic policies,
productivity and protecting
the environment.
FREEDOM
implies not just to do something, but the
capabilities to make it happen. What people can
achieve (their capabilities) is influenced by
“economic opportunities, political liberties,
social powers, and the enabling condition of
good health, basic education, and the
encouragement and cultivation of initiatives”.
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