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Social Welfare |
Social Development Model |
"New World Order" Model |
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The central values embodied in
social welfare include: (1) shared
communal responsibility in assisting others to attain optimal self
sufficiency; (2) self help; (3) mutual aid; (4)
altruism; (5) humanitarianism; (6) cooperation; (7)
distributive justice; and (8) self-determination
Social welfare also claims respect
for individual and group differences; a commitment to equality of
opportunity and the search for
equity is central to welfare functions
These values, in turn, are expressed through system wide efforts that seek to
assure the satisfaction of at least basic social and
material needs The "social safety net" that results from these efforts, in turn, is designed to protect socially vulnerable populations from exploitation and human degradation (e.g., the aged, sick, disabled, children, etc.) |
Values central to social development practice stress: (1)
"conscientization"; (2) distributive justice;
(3) non-exploitive rationality; (4)
"de-tribalization"; (5) cooperation;
(6) the emergence of "humanocracy"; and (7)
participation The actualization of these values is realized through the active participation, i.e., "social animation," of groups of oppressed persons in their own "liberation," i.e., individual and collective empowerment
Conscientization, i.e., profound
insight into the source(s) of their
oppression combined with a willingness to act collectively in bringing about
solutions to those oppressions
Consequently, the effectiveness of
social development practice is
assessed in terms of its capacity to
assist disenfranchised people in
attaining or regaining control over
their social, political, and economic
futures
Perceives cultural, religious, ethnic, racial, and other social
"differences" as source of national
strength and vitality |
Central world order values include
a commitment to: (1) the unity of
humanity; (2) the minimization of
violence; (3) the satisfaction of
basic human needs; (4) the primacy of human dignity; (5) the
retention of diversity and pluralism; and
(6) the need for universal participation
The pursuit of a new world order
that emphasizes global sharing,
rather than squandering; global
cooperation, rather than competition; and global conservation,
rather than exploitation
Viewed within a unified ecological
context, man is viewed as a protector of the delicate ecological
balance on which all people and
future generations depend Essential to the attainment of a new world order is the voluntary willingness to forgo the satisfaction of a nearly limitless individual "wants" and "needs" in the interest of satisfying collective "wants" and "needs" |