| Summary: | Thesis (M Social Work)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. === Some digitised pages may appear illegible due to the condition of the original hard copy. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Currently much attention is given in South African welfare legislation and in recent local and
intemationalliterature and research to the process of social integration and the formation of social
capital as one of the ideational outcomes of a social development approach, and therefore also a
key practice element of developmental social work. Very little research have been undertaken to
document the changes in social work practice brought about by the transition to a social
development approach in South Africa. The purpose of this study is to formulate social work
practice guidelines on the facilitation of social integration on community level. It therefore
constitutes an attempt to illuminate how social workers could contribute to the national thrust
toward the social integration of communities and provide valuable guidelines to social workers
on the practical realization of this key element of developmental social work.
In order to gain new insight and to clarify central concepts relating to this relatively unfamiliar
research area, an exploratory research design was utilised. The population for the study consisted
of practising social workers in welfare agencies subsidised by the Department of Social Services
in the Cape Metropolitan area. From the population a sample was drawn utilising sampling
strategies from both the probability and non-probability sampling procedures. The study was both
qualitative and quantitative in nature and in-dept interviews were chosen as the method of datacollection.
The interview schedule was compiled from the literature survey. In this survey the relation
between the social development approach to welfare and social integration was explained, and
some of the core focus areas for the social integration of South African communities were
identified. Furthermore a discussion was given on community intervention strategies as a core
method of social work as well as its practice implications for developmental social work. From
this literature survey structured and unstructured questions were formulated and compiled in an
interview schedule. This measurement instrument was utilised to explore how social workers can
facilitate the social integration of communities through community intervention strategies. From
the analysis ofthe results of the empirical study, social work practice guidelines on the facilitation
of social integration on community level were formulated. === AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Huidige Suid-Afrikaanse welsynsbeleid asook kontemporêre plaaslike en internasionale literatuur
en navorsing plaas verhoogde klem op die proses van maatskaplike integrasie en die vorming van
sosiale kapitaal as een van die uitkomste van 'n sosiale ontwikkeling benadering en 'n kern
praktyk element van ontwikkelingsgerigte maatskaplike werk. Tans is daar nog min navorsing
gedoen wat poog om die praktyk implikasies, wat die skuifna 'n ontwikkelingsgerigte benadering
vir maatskaplike werk inhou, te dokumenteer. Die doel van hierdie studie is om maatskaplike
werk praktykriglyne vir die fasilitering van maatskaplike integrasie op gemeenskapsvlak te
formuleer. Die studie vergestalt dus 'n poging om die rol van maatskaplike werkers in die strewe
na die maatskaplike integrasie van gemeenskappe te probeer verhelder, asook om aan
maatskaplike werkers waardevolle riglyne te voorsien rondom die praktiese realisering van hierdie
kern element van ontwikkelingsgerigte maatskaplike werk. Ten einde nuwe insigte te ontwikkel
en belangrike konsepte binne hierdie relatief onbekende navorsingsveld te klarifiseer, is 'n
verkennende navoringsontwerp gebruik. Die universum vir hierdie studie het bestaan uit
praktiserende maatskaplike werkers in diens van welsynsorganisasies in die Kaapse Metropool wat
deur die Provinsiale Departement van Welsyn subsidieer word. Vanuit die universum is 'n
steekproef getrek deur beide waarskynlikheid- en nie-waarskynlikheid steekproef trekking
prosedures te benut. Die studie was beide kwalitatief en kwantitatief van aard en in-diepte
onderhoude is gebruik as metode van data-versameling.
Die onderhoude was gevoer aan die hand van onderhoudskedules wat op grond van die literatuur
ondersoek opgestel is. In die literatuur ondersoek is die verhouding tussen die sosiale
ontwikkeling benadering tot welsyn en maatskaplike integrasie ondersoek, asook kern areas vir
die maatskaplike integrasie van Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskappe identifiseer. Verder is
gemeenskapsintervensiestrategieë as 'n kern metode in die maatskaplike werk, asook die
implikasies daarvan vir ontwikkelingsgerigte maatskaplike werk, bespreek. Die onderhoudskedule
is gebruik om te eksploreer hoe maatskaplike werkers deur middel van hulle gemeenskapswerk
intervensie kan bydrae tot die fasilitering van maatskaplike integrasie. Die versamelde data is
analiseer en maatskaplikewerk praktykriglyne vir die fasilitering van maatskaplike integrasie op
gemeenskapsvlak is geformuleer.
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