Integrated Social Work Practice II (Community Organization and Social Action)

Paper Code: 
MSW 321
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To develop ability to analyse the community, its problems and issues.
  • To develop understanding of the concepts and terms relevant to community organization and social action as methods of intervention.
  • To secure knowledge of various approaches and techniques of community organization and social action.
  • To develop sensitivity and commitment towards issues of marginalized and opressed people.
  • To develop analytical and conceptual framework for social work practice.
     
Unit I: 
  • Basic concepts and Terms : Community, rural and urban communities, community development, community work.
  • Social action : Concept, history, principles and strategies.
  • Use of social action in social work practice.
Unit II: 
  • Community organization : Concept, Principles, Techniques and Scope.
  • Models of Community organization : Locality Development, Social Planning, neighbourhood development; Community Development Programmes and Panchayati Raj System.
Unit III: 
  • Indigenous approaches to community organization : Gandhian or Sarvodaya, Bhoodaan and Gramdan.
  • Application of Community organization to social issues and problems.scope of community organization
Unit IV: 
  • Social Action, social movements and social change.
  • Models of Social Action : Legislative Action; Sanction, Direct Physical and Conscientisation Models.
Unit V: 
  • Role of Pressure Groups : Voluntary Organisations, Non-party formations and their initiatives, social advocacy.
  • Concepts of Rights and Social Action
  • Contemporary social action intervention in India
References: 
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  6. Gangrade, K.D. A School is Built, Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi, 1964.
  7. Twelvetrees, A Community Work, London, Macmillan, 1982.
  8. Singh, K. Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1986.
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  12. Harper, E.B. and Dunham Arthur, Community Organization in Action, New York: Association Press, 1959.
  13. Gandhi P.K. (Ed.) Social Action through Law: Partnership through Law, New Delhi, Concept, 1985.
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  15. Ahuja, Sangeeta, People, Law and Justice: Case book of Public Interest Litigation, (Vol. I and II), New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1997.
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  17. Siddiqui, H.Y. Community Organization in India. Harnam, New Delhi, 1997.
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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