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What
essay type questions could be asked in a course on community based social
work?
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1. It has sometimes been claimed that
community participation is simply a cheap way to obtain resources from
target communities, and agencies are simply exploiting the communities
by calling for it. Argue an alternative point of view.
2. Explain why setting up a social
work office in a community does not constitute a community based approach.
3. The profession of social work
is supposed to assist in the solving of social problems, yet the approach
(as indicated in text books) has often being in the form of assistance
to individuals, especially in Western societies. What arguments can
you use to support a social approach in Canada?
4. Sometimes the solving of an individual
problem hinders the solving of a social problem. Explain, in reference
to one of the following:
(a) poverty;
(b) physical disability;
(c) drug addiction; or
(d) street children.
5. In order to develop a community
approach to social work, it is important to know something about the social
nature of communities. How does any one of the following contribute
to that understanding?
(a) the “super-organic;”
(b) a tree transcends the atoms
which compose it; or
(c) the six cultural dimensions.
6. Social change is inevitable,
therefore social problems are inevitable. Explain
7. The interface between the social
level and the individual level can be found in the sociological concept
of “role.” Please explain the nature of “role” and how it
links individuals to society.
8. Two types of social “glue”
hold a community together, gemeinschaft and gesellschaft
(do not translate these words from the German). In what ways do these
differ, and how can a modern community have elements of both?
9. If people do not own both the
problem and the solution, it remains unsustainable. What does the
word “own” mean in this context? How does this community development
principle apply to social work?
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