Saturday, November 13, 2010

SOCIAL NETWORK

Social network-----In the words of Scottlin kuper and kuper (eds). 1996:795 a social network is any articulated pattern of connection in the social relations of individuals, groups and other collectivities". The origin of the term may be traced back to 1930s when many social scientists started using the terms like'web' fabric, etc in the context of society. These words were initially used by Radcliff Brawn in Anthropology and Jacob Moreno in social psychology. It was Moreno who propounded the idea of depicting a social network with the helps of a diagram called soogram. It was George Haman who in the year 1951 formalised the network metaphor.
                           In social work the term 'network' is used in a specific sense to refer to an interconnection or web or fabric of various like minded voluntary organizations community based organizations community based organizations (CBO) non-government organizations (NGO) engagged in the pursuit of similiar objectives created with a view to working together in a coordinated and effective manner. In the contemporary social setup in which the state is gradually withdrawing from the social sector, leaving it primarily to the voluntary organization to work, there has been a mushroom growth in their numbers and many of them singly are quite weak, and it has become essential now that social networks are created to increase their effectiveness through their webbed existence and coordinated functioning.

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