著者

加山 弾

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.95, pp.203-215, 2003-10-28

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Nowadays the social action model of community practice in social work tends to be considered old-fashioned, because of the tendency that many people recently do not prefer using what used to be the standard methods of conflict and confrontation to assert their rights. However, such kinds of social action are still required in litigant's activities such as in the cases of Hansen's disease, HIV, and so on. This study attempts to make a presentation of a hypothetical model of current forms of social action. This model is tested using four cases. They are activities: (case 1) against pollution; (case 2) to change the government's principle on a new law providing services for disabled people; (case 3) for education and enlightenment about the environment; (case 4) to stop the closure of a nursing school for children with disabilities. Cases 1 and 2 were carried into practice according to the conventional method of social action, so in this meaning these two were similar. However, a difference was seen in that case 1 was for people in a specific geographic area, while case 2 was not. On the other hand, cases 3 and 4 had similar characteristics because they were quite different from the conventional social action; they were carried out with moderation after a term of confrontation. Although case 3 was for a generic area, case 4 was for a specific location. A framework for analysis of social action was derived through this argument: axes of confrontation-cooperation (the basic structure of relationships between the people concerned and their target), and specific-generic (the geographic area for intervention). Possibly this framework can be used by social workers to choose the appropriate social action method.