Introduction in Social Work

Jamela A. Mamadra
Bachelor of Science in Social Work
Abdul Rahman Alongan
March 19, 2019
Personality Theories

The study of personality has a broad and varied history in psychology

with an abundance of theoretical tread. The major theories include
dispositional (trait) perspective, psychodynamic, humanistic, biological,
behaviorist, evolutionary, and social learning perspective.

Learning Theories

In short, learning theories are abstract frameworks that describe how

knowledge is received and processed during the learning experience. Learning
theory informs the application of instructional design through
models. Although there are multiple theories of learning, there are three
principle foundations that influence most instructional design models today.
These learning strategies include: behaviorist learning theory, cognitivist
learning theory, and constructivist learning theory.

Social Role Theories

Social role theory has a broad scope that applies to interaction in all
contexts and addresses assertive, power related behaviors as well as supportive
or feeling related behaviors (called socio emotional behaviors). The explanations
offered by the theory are not highly specific or detailed, however. The theory
predicts that women will generally act more communally and less
instrumentally than men in the same context that these differences will be
greatest when gender is highly salient in the situation, and that gender
differences will be weak or absent when people enact formal, institutional roles.

Culture Theories

Cultural theory This term has been applied to diverse attempts to

conceptualize and understand the dynamics of culture. Historically these have
involved arguments about the relationship between culture and nature, culture
and society (including material social processes), the split between high and
low culture, and the interplay between cultural tradition and cultural
difference and diversity. Cultural theory has also been marked by an
engagement with concepts which have often been taken to cover some of the
same ground signified by the notion of culture itself. Prominent here have been
the concepts of ideology and consciousness (particularly its collective forms).

System Theories

Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of

complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which
one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to
produce some result.

Communication Theories

Communication Theory seeks to explain the nature of human

interaction and patterns that emerge in social connection. Humans engaged in
transactions with others daily. These transactions can be studied to
understand the unconscious and conscious biases that occur during daily
activities.

Concepts develop from research of psychological factors, social influences,

physical environment, and culture.[2] Theories in communication go on to
explain how we perceive interactions, how they make us perceive others, how
media impacts our way of thinking and many other translation of human
interaction.

Social Group Theories

According to the social identity approach, a group is a group when the
members experience social identity—when they define themselves in part by
the group that they belong to and feel good about their group membership
(Hogg, 2010). This identity might be seen as a tendency on the part of the
individual to talk positively about the group to others, a general enjoyment of
being part of the group, and a feeling of pride that comes from group
membership. Because identity is such an important part of group membership,
we may attempt to create it to make ourselves feel good, both about our group
and about ourselves. Perhaps you know some people—maybe you are one—
who wear the clothes of their sports team to highlight their identity with the
group because they want to be part of, and accepted by, the other group
members. Indeed, the more that we see our social identities as part of our
membership of a group, the more likely we are to remain in them, even when
attractive alternatives exist.