Interactionist Approach

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2. It is developed by William Schwartz
that there is a symbolic relationship
between people and their
environment, and therefore, the
function of social work is to mediate
the process through which the
individual and society reach out
each other through a mutual need
for self fulfillment.

3. Interaction is a face-to-face process
consisting on actions, reaction and
mutual adaptation between two or
more individuals. It also includes
animal interaction. The interaction
includes all language (including body
language) and mannerisms.

4. It is a theoretical perspective that
derives social processes (such as
conflict, cooperation, identity
formation) from human interaction.
It is the study of how individuals act
within society.

5.  Human beings unlike lower animals are
endowed with a capacity for thought.
 The capacity for thought is shaped by
social interaction.
 In social interaction, people learn the
meanings and the symbols that allow them to
exercise their distinctively human capacity
for thought.

6. Meanings and symbols allow people
to carry on distinctively human
action and interaction.
People are able to modify or alter
meanings and symbols that they use
in action and interaction on the
basis of their interpretation of the
situation.

7.  Social works' function in society is most
powerfully expressed when it directs itself
not to the individual or the social, but to the
relationship between the two.
 The function of social work is to mediate the
transactions between people and the various
systems through which they carry on their
relationships with society-the family, the
peer groups, the social agency, the
neighborhood, the school, the job and the
others.

8.  Helping each other individual client
negotiate the system immediately
crucial to the problems.
 Helping the reach out to incorporate
the client, deliver its service and thus
carry out its function in the
community.

9.  The social worker has a two client
responsibility.
 The worker addresses each member,
whose relationship to the group this
member needs to negotiate the larger
system of which it is part-the agency, the
neighborhood.
 The group is described as an alliance of
moving, interdependent beings, with the
worker being one of them.

10.  The group is a collective in which people
face and interact with each other.
 The people need each other for certain
specific purposes.
 People come together to work on common
task.
 The work is embedded in a relevant
agency function.

11.  Assumptions that can be made about the
laws of nature appropriate to the task of the
workers.
 The valued outcomes that need to be
brought about, and the implementing acts
which the worker may have to do.

12.  Weak version: acknowledge that
interaction is beneficial or even necessary
for learning by providing learners to
comprehensible, negotiated , or modified
input.
 Strong version: recognizes interaction as
a basic and fundamental dimension of
learners every day lives.

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