Social Planning Approaches to Community Work

Abstract

While the uniqueness of community work lies, I believe, in the community development approach, the social planning approach is now more common. To complicate matters further, social planning is a wide field in itself, encompassing many other activities, such as economic planning and national planning, which have little to do with community work. Thus, on the one hand, most community workers are involved in social planning; on the other hand, most people who engage in social planning could not be described as community workers.