Using Theory in Youth and Community Work Practice by Ilona Buchroth, Christine Parkin

By Ilona Buchroth, Christine Parkin

This ebook explores quite a lot of theoretical views that advisor the perform of neighborhood and early life paintings and comparable occupational fields. It presents various useful actions to motivate readers to discover their very own theoretical place, whereas significantly enticing with the modern theoretical context that's shaping the improvement of group and formative years paintings perform. scholars will locate this e-book a useful instrument in constructing their knowing of idea, and it'll aid them to holistically and systematically observe their figuring out of thought to their correct perform scenario.

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This definition need have no geographical basis – for example, Muslim community, scientific community, gay community, deaf community. It may also exist between people who have never met each other. Many of the early theorists focused on community as a type of relationship; they tend to use community as a critique of urban industrialisation. This provides an example of how empirical descriptions (studies of communities as they are) can be influences of normative prescriptions (expressions of values about what community life should be like).

Social problems and disharmony are the result of this power struggle. Statement 4 Society comprises self-seeking individuals. Each individual pursues their own best interests and in so doing works towards the better good of society. Social problems and disharmony are the result of the limitation of individual freedom or individual evil. This activity has begun to engage you in the questions that social theorists engage with: What is society? What is the relationship between individuals and society?

Macro sociology/structural theory Macro or structural theories focus on social systems – based on an organic model of society which sees society as a whole, with things which happen being explicable in terms of their contribution to the survival of the social system. This group of theories suggests that the explanation for human behaviour cannot be found in the experience of the individual and that objective forces beyond our control have to be uncovered and examined. These forces can be found in the systems of language and in the ideological and political structures of society.

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