Rural Social Work - Theory and Practice
1977
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Abstract
Because life styles, values, social institutions, and "survival activities" differ in undeveloped rural areas from those in industrial societies, the techniques and approaches used by rural social workers must be adjusted to meet the needs of the population being dealt with. In forager and agricultural societies, social workers and otter human service personnel intervene into kinship patterns, extended families, customs, rules, taboos, and obligations *
Key takeaways
- ( The speech and the discussion rapidly turned to why things were different in rural communities, and at that time, there were no firm answers.
- Various people are introduced who can do things.
- Social Workers can learn how to do this for themselves.
- Many rural people do not accept that judgement.
- I have heard native people and their organizations say that freedom, sound use of the land and resources, being with nature, etc., are higher values, and the outsiders have no right to take that away except the right they give themselves by force.
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