Community & Social Work: Organizational Intervention Levels
Community Work and Social Work
There are important ambiguities in this respect:
- Social Work views Community Work as one of its three traditional methods of intervention. For Social Work cases, the Social Work and Community Work Group would be the methodological triad around which to build the professional exercise. Compared to the first two methods, which addressed the treatment of personal social situations, community work addresses collective social situations.
- We note the existence of a common repertoire.
Semantic Relationships: Meaning in Language
Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the objective meaning of a word, while connotation is the meaning developed over time. Connotations can be cultural and/or subjective.
Meaning and Sense
The meaning of a word is determined by the linguistic context and the communicative situation.
Context and Situation
The linguistic context of a word is affected by the following factors:
- The set of words that surround the discourse.
- The syntactic relationship that links the terms of a statement.
- The relationship
Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle & 1890 Strike
Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle and the 1890 Strike
Source Text Analysis (1896)
Type: Primary source. Regarding the form: article/propaganda text + narrative. Content: Socio-political text.
Author: Socialists, published in their bulletin “La Lucha de Clases” (The Class Struggle) by socialist committees of Bilbao, Gallarta, and La Arboleda (inspired by Facundo Perezagua).
Addressed to: Workers of Bizkaia (miners), but also the Government. Public text.
Objective: To denounce the working conditions of miners and
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Social Anthropology: The Study of Humanity
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Without income from
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