Unique Method for Social Transformation
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Nora Lizbeth Gutierrez Machuca. 2°C May 4, 2018
Unique Method
The unique method is characterized by complexity in the operational dimension; it is the result of
Regional Seminar in Chile in 1968:
An exact date for the first publications of that method is not known; however, it is taken
as a reference the conclusions of the IV Latin American Regional Seminar held in
Concepción (Chile) in 1968, where the structural-functional methodology is questioned and attempts are made
widely on the reconceptualization. The awareness method is taken as a reference
and the formulation of new objectives and professional functions, such as awareness, change
social, social promotion, assistance and social prevention. Some of these elements are included
later in the unique method, which indicates as professional objectives, the attainment of the
social transformation, through rational action, undertaken by men who have taken
awareness of their value and personal dignity. The predominant elements of the method are
they focus on four main functions, each of which corresponds to a process
specific methodological.
The Unique Method.
This method identifies as professional objectives achieving a social transformation of the
existing conditions through rational action, carried out by a person who has taken
awareness of their value and human dignity. To achieve these objectives, the Unique Method
proposes four major functions for Social Work. Each of them corresponds to a
different methodological approach.
SOCIAL EDUCATION FUNCTION to achieve:
a. Basic social training
b. Basic technical training
c. Change of mental structures
Social education that is supported by Paulo Freire's psycho-social method, to which they add the phase
of execution.
The phases of the method are:
1. Delimitation of the area
2. Thematic research
3. Coding
4. Decoding
5. Execution
6. Evaluation
FUNCTION OF SOCIAL RESEARCH to achieve:
Investigate social reality
2. Investigate social welfare institutions
3. Investigate the field of Social Service The implemented methodology is: 1. Feeling of
Problem 2. Delimitation of the topic 3. Formulation of hypotheses.
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4. Research design
5. Fieldwork
6. Data analysis and interpretation
7. Final report
FUNCTION OF SOCIAL PLANNING to achieve: cooperation in the design of social policies at the level
national, and to contribute to the change of structures.
The proposed methodology for this function is:
1. Diagnosis
2. Determination of goals and means
3. Discussion and decision
4. Development of the plan
5. Execution
6. Evaluation
ASSISTANCE FUNCTION to solve immediate problems using the following process:
Knowledge of the environment
2. Diagnosis
3. Programming
4. Execution
5. Evaluation
A common predominance for the fulfillment of these functions of the following process is presented:
1. Research
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning and scheduling
4. Execution
5. Evaluation
Of the three methods, the only one is the least widespread and known among the Workers' guild.
Social issues, due to the difficulty of their operationalization.
A new concept for the analysis of methodological processes is assumed: that of function.
The unique method works around four functions, each composed of an operational scheme.
which is similar in several of them, but with an orientation aligned with the proposed objective for each
one.
The methodological modification was specifically carried out in the disappearance of what had been
the action objects of traditional methods – individual, group, and community – thus believing
simplify and make professional work more scientific. However, the result is different, not
it goes from being a set of functions – we do not deny its importance, nor the new intentionality
that orient not completely exclusive of the well-trodden paths of traditional methods. A
each of these functions is associated with a specific methodological structure,
that most of the time present stages that repeat themselves and can even confuse the technician
that will develop them.
The unique method seeks social transformation through awareness and capabilities.
and the possibilities that human beings have to develop in social reality.
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The basic, unique, and integrated methods are very similar to each other in terms of how they capture the structure.
general of traditional methods; they were proposed in the 1960s but did not have the
sufficient transcendence to consolidate their advancement and concretization as methods of the profession.