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2. Macro social work - Wikipedia

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   Macro social work is the use of social work skills training and perspective to produce overarching social change or social justice of some kind. [1] Unlike micro or mezzo social work, which deals with individual and small group issues, macro social work aims to address societal problems at their roots; however, it has recently not received the same level of importance.

3. Macrosociology - Wikipedia

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   Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction. [1][2] Though macrosociology does concern itself with individuals, families, and other constituent aspects of a society, it does so in relation ...

4. Community practice - Wikipedia

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   Community practice also known as mezzo social work is a branch of social work that focuses on larger social systems and social change, and is tied to the history of social work. [1] The field of community practice social work encompasses community organizing and community organization, community building, social planning, human service ...

5. Social work - Wikipedia

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   Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work.

6. Anti-oppressive practice - Wikipedia

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   Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...

7. Level of analysis - Wikipedia

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   Level of analysis. Level of analysis is used in the social sciences to point to the location, size, or scale of a research target. It is distinct from unit of observation in that the former refers to a more or less integrated set of relationships while the latter refers to the distinct unit from which data have been or will be gathered.

8. Macrostructure (sociology) - Wikipedia

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   In sociology, macrostructures, often simply called 'structure', correspond to the overall organization of society, described at a rather large-scale level, featuring for instance social groups, organizations, institutions, nation-states and their respective properties and relations. In this case, societal macrostructures are distinguished from ...

9. Racial formation theory - Wikipedia

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   Racial formation theory is an analytical tool in sociology, developed by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, which is used to look at race as a socially constructed identity, where the content and importance of racial categories are determined by social, economic, and political forces. [1] Unlike other traditional race theories, "In [Omi and Winant ...