RECENT TREND ON

SOCIAL ACTION
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Recent trends on social action

Social actions are the action of ordinary Individual
human person. These include are the actions of
individual performed in according with conventions,
rulers and conventions, rules and norms, and the
actions of individual.
Social action is a way of meeting mass social problems.
It could be briefly defined as mass attack on mass social
problems.

 Social action is a new addition to the list of methods of

professional social work. Although social action has
been used in other fields a s well , such as in filed of
social reform and of political movement.
All the helping actives approaches, social services , and
that are found in the developing nations today.

Definition
Mary Richmond was the first social worker to use the
word social action in 1922. She defines social action
as mass betterment through propaganda and social
legislation.
Sydney Maslin (1947) limits the scope of social action
by considering it as a process of social work mainly
concerned with securing legislation to meet mass
problems.
Baldwin (1966) defines social action as an organized
effort to change social and economic institutions as
distinguished from social work or social service, the
fields which do not characteristically cover essential

SOCIAL ACTION THEORIES

Gilbert approaches in is view unbridged gap between
the social action and human action.
Attempts to develop a non-individuals of theory of social
action.
To this point that there are distinctions to be made
between individual and interpersonal action on the one
hand an social action on other hands.
Social action is necessarily interdepends action.
however, I hold that social action Is only species of
interdependent action. For examples, there are many
interpersonal actions that involve interdepends but are
not social action .

The following categories of human

action
Individual action, that is action involving mind and
actions involving mind to mind interaction that are not
responded to.
Interpersonal action that is actions that involves mind to
mind interaction, and are not simply Indi duals
Natural actions, that is Individual or interpersonal
actions which are performed by simply of needs.

Collective
There are several types of social organization inn which
the Individual is seen as being subordinate to a social
collectively such as a state, a nations, a race, or a social
class.
In this latter case one could see collective action at
work in counteracting a common danger. This is
collective action is an illustration of social action.
There was no collective action in spite of repeated
danger, no massing of engey, no canalization of energy
towards achieving or realizing an envisaged purpose.

Creating social action

Creating social awareness then is one of the objectives
of social worker functioning in the role of the objectives
of a social actionist .
Social awareness is here used not only in the sense of
problem-consciousness but includes emotional, moral
and may be , physical support of a measures or remedy
intended to counter or combat the problem .

 1. lectures when properly delivered at an opportune

moment are potent instruments for moving people to
social action. Lectures consist of meaningful words,
voiced and gesticulated .
Factual
Ideological and
Declamatory
2. Seminar
Is pre-arrangement and intensive discussion of any
subject or subjects amongst members of a group
composed of about five to twenty purposes.

Recent trend in Social action for Child Labour

To prevent children below the age of 14 from working for
wages or for a living in occupations
To take steps to identify and release every child below the age
of 14 years, if found working.
To take all measures to rehabilitate the released child labour.
To implement various developmental schemes, poverty
programmes and self employment schemes to benefit the
families of child labour.

 To take up massive awareness generation programmes

through community participation and to create a
positive climate for child labour.
To ensure that no child below 14 years of age is allowed
to work in agriculture or any kind of labour work in the
rural areas. their should be a Gram
Panchayats/Panchayat Unions and review the status of
the children in the community.

SOCIAL ACTION PLAN FOR CHILD LABOUR

REHABILITATION OF CHILD LABOUR
---The Child Labour identified should be released from work
and admitted in National Child Labour Project special
schools
In the non-NCLP community of the child labour identified
should be admitted in the alternate schools proposed to be
run by the Education department under Sarva Sikshya
Abhiyan scheme.
Protect the girl child from economic exploitation and from
performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to
interfere with her education, or to be harmful to her health
or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social. development

Elements of social action

The term social action is an method of social work. Its
aim is to bring changes in social policies and legislation.
It consist of the following elements.
1. For the success of social action, the group or
community concerned should be active .
2. Social action, problem be selected only after the
available resources.
3. The success and failure of social actions is based on
public opinion, therefore newpapers,radio, television
and public meetings .