Social Work's Developmental and Change Functions
Their Roots in Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10543182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herman D Stein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 1976-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/643339 |
| OpenAlex | W2016334790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Social work can progress to the functions of social development and system change by fulfilling its system-maintenance function. System maintenance sustains social stability and cohesion through meeting needs of people in accordance with prevailing social values and institutions. Developmental functions aid in the orderly growth and change of established political, economic, or social institutions. System change challenges significant values and elements in the social structure, including distribution of wealth and power. These functions are overlapping in reality but are sequential in their full development. Under a residual welfare policy, using the models developed by Richard Titmuss, social work will not rise beyond the system maintenance level, while the institutional redistributive model allows more scope for social work in all of its functions
Cohesion (chemistry · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Social change · Social entropy · Social inertia · Social order · Social position · Sociology · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 1996 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |