Concepts of Social Welfare

Social Work:

The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving bin human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social system, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.

Social Services:

According to social work dictionary “Social services is the activities of social workers and others in promoting the health and well-being of people and in helping people become more self sufficient preventing dependency; strengthening restoring individuals, families, groups or communities to successful social functioning”.

Social Reform:

According to social work dictionary” Social reform is an activity designed to rearrange social institutions or the way they are managed to achieve greater social justice or other desired change”.

Social Change:

Professor Morris Ginsberg” By social change I understand a change in social structure, e.g. the size of a society, the composition or balance of its parts or the type of its organization. The term social change must also include changes in attitudes or beliefs in so far as they sustain institutions and change with them”.

Social Security:

Sir William Beveridge” A job when you can work and an income when you can not”

Social Action:

According to social work dictionary” Social action is a coordinated effort to achieve institutional change to meet a need, solve a social problem, correct and justice or enhance the quality of human life”.

Social Development:

From The Encyclopedia of Social Work-R. Panday: Social development includes improvement in the quality of life of people, equitable distribution of resources, broadbased participation in the process of decision making and special measures that will enable marginal groups and communities to move in the mainstream

Social Legislation:

According to Social Work Dictionary-Social legislation is the laws and resources allocations providing for human welfare needs, income security, education and cultural progress, civil rights, consumer protection and programs that address social problems.