Theoretical Perspectives on the Social Environment to Guide Management and Community Practice

Autor:	Elizabeth A. Mulroy
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Resource mobilization Health (social science) Public Administration Social network business.industry Social philosophy Social change Consensus theory Public relations Social learning Management Community practice Sociology business Social economy
Zdroj:	Administration in Social Work. 28:77-96
ISSN:	1544-4376 0364-3107
DOI:	10.1300/j147v28n01_06
Popis:	This paper introduces a conceptual framework called Or-ganization-in-Environment that is intended to help social work students, particularly those preparing for careers in management and community practice, understand the complexity of the social environment in the context of a global economy. This model is based on two assumptions. First, organizations and communities are embedded in large, complex macro systems that helped to create institutional barriers of the past. Second, organizations are civic actors with the potential to strengthen communities and change institutional inequities set in larger societal systems. Theories of social justice, the political economy, vertical and horizontal linkages, organization/environment dimensions, and interorganizational collaboration are presented and used to help analyze the model. Case examples of privatization, gentrification, and homelessness are used to illustrate theory for practice. Finally, implications are drawn for a future-oriented practice th...
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