Community Organization and Social Action

Paper Code: 
MSW321
Credits: 
4
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.

 

12.00
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.

12.00
Unit II: 

Community organization : Concept, Principles, Process

Models of Community organization : Locality Development, Social Planning, neighbourhood development; Community Development Programmes and Panchayati Raj System.

 

12.00
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

12.00
Unit IV: 

Social Action, social movements and social change.

Models of Social Action : Legislative Action; Sanction, Direct Physical and Conscientisation Models.

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Role of Pressure Groups: Voluntary Organisations, Non-party formations and their initiatives, social advocacy.

Concepts of Rights and Social Action.

Comtemporary social action intervention in India

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  • 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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Academic Session: 
2019-20
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