RADICAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL WORK SEMINAR PAPER SUBMITTED BY SANDEEP CHAURASIA BASW FINAL YEAR STUDENT ROLL NO. 07 AT SCHOOL OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES TULJAPUR‚ OSMANABAD RADICAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL ACTION ABSTRACT “There are no rules for revolution any more than there are rules for love or rules for happiness‚ but there are rules for radicals who want to change their world”………… Saul D. Alinsky‚ 1971. Above statement has the key to change
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Essay #2 Please describe how and when any unusual family or personal circumstances have affected your achievement in school‚ work experience‚ or your participation in school and community activities. A couple years ago I encountered a situation where I was close to my final breath. This situation unfolded when I was on vacation in Hawaii with my family. We traveled to a beach were we enjoyed the sun and had a great time when I was caught by a riptide and taken a couple hundred yards out into the
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Personal Work Environment This paper will explore organizational communication and its application within my work environment. I will explain the main types of communication within each organizational structure. I will also analyze communication in my personal work environment to include amount‚ types‚ options‚ location‚ and speed. The essay‚ Sharing Organizational Messages Through Effective Lateral Communication‚ by John E Spillan‚ Mary Mino‚ and M Susan Rowles (2002)‚ focuses on studying and
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ground most of the time when she speaks‚ her shoulders are slouched forward. I have tried for weeks to engage her and try to get a smile from her‚ but it is worthless‚ I thought. She reported that she doesn’t have any friends and feels strange in social situations. Two weeks ago‚ we had a deep conversation about her grandfather being ill. She also disclosed for the first time that she used to cut in fifth grade. She is now in the ninth grade. Since that appointment she has not met me. My initial
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multiple people‚ but it never seems to work as well for me. There was one instance (4:50-4:55) where I was waiting for her to continue to her challenges further‚ but she did not. Something I could have done was waited longer to see if had more to say or invited her to elaborate. I feel I need to have more practice prompting the client to hear more of his or her story if there is a lull in conversation and no one is speaking. Something I feel I need to work on is summarizing the client’s concerns
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Why the racism should be forbidden and how it can be reduced Many people visits America. Someone comes for travel‚ someone for study English. Also‚ getting a job or wanting a better place to live can be purposes of being in America. Inevitably‚ there are many races mixed in America because many people from many different countries come to America. African Americans‚ Hispanics‚ Asians‚ and many other races are mixed in America. This seems like a really normal thing‚ however‚ some people do
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different to the table. This brings to to discuss personal strengths and weaknessess within myself and my everyday living. Personal strengths are areas where we tend to excel‚ and seem to express above average. Personal Weaknesses to me are areas where we would like to excel but seem to still need improvement. If I can‚ let me share with you my strengths and weaknesses and see how they effect my everyday being. Lets begin with my personal strengths. To me these are areas where I think I excel and
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In the developmental systems theory‚ a person is not only biology‚ only psychology‚ or only social system. Rather‚ the individual is a combination of those systems‚ which is referred to as biopsychosocial. Social workers must see the multiple levels of organization that exist within a human’s development as part of a complex developmental system. Social workers have to take into account the interactions of multiple factors in assessing clients and situations. Usually our backgrounds are more in the
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Social Work Practice Teenage pregnancy is a social issue and is significant to the practice of social work. One of the main goals of social work is to help individuals‚ groups‚ or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal (Benson‚ 2004). It is important for social workers that those of them in practice understand the complexity of teenage pregnancy and the effects it has on the family as a whole. Social workers should
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They result in building social capital‚ trust and shared values‚ which politically‚ help hold society together. Putnam’s civil society is the idea that positive outcomes in government are a product of civic community‚ for example‚ networks of trust such as‚ soccer club or choral society (Putnam). However‚ social capital may also lead to negative outcomes if the political institution and democracy in a specific country is not strong enough and therefore overpowered by the social capital groups (Berman)
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