Interactionist approach

Interactionist Approach

1. Interactionist Approach .

2. Interactionist approach` 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 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. interactionisim 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. Principles of symbolic interactionism 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. THE MEDIATING FUNCTION 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. Interrelated responsibilities 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 group 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. MAJOUR FEATURES 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. Phases of works 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. INTERACTIONIST APPROACH IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE TWO VERSIONS 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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