العمل الاجتماعي بوصفه نموذجا من نماذج تنظيم المجتمع : نموذج مقترح ؟

Abstract EN

Community Organization is one of the main methods of social work professions.

It uses several models, including social planning; local development and social action.

Although social action as a model of community organization has not received the attention required in the literature of social work in the Arab world in general and in Jordan in particular.

This study aimed to identify the reality of social action as a model of community organization in Jordan at the academic and practical levels.

The researcher used a qualitative methodology, data were collected through identifying the views of a group of social workers about their concept of social action and their perspective on its use, The field study was conducted on a sample consisting of 30 social workers, academics and practitioners in a number of areas of social work.

Open interview, and the content of courses and social work courses taught to students of social service (bachelor and master) at the University of Jordan was analyzed, as well as the literature review.

The study reached aset of results, the most important of which were: the absence of the concept of social action s academically and practically.

Participants expressed their conviction of the importance and feasibility of using the social action method in professional practice.

The study concluded with a set of recommendations, the most important of which was the need to develop social work curricula to include deeper knowledge, skills and ethics about social action and methods of practicing it, in addition to the need for more in - depth studies on the subject.