Social Advocacy: From Models to Strategies
In the early 1970s, Jack Rothman’s work on community organization practices introduced the concept of models for community intervention practice. Over the decades, the classifications of other American and Canadian authors have been added to the initial classification of models of social planning, local development and social action. Each of these authors contributed to further characterize the practices of community intervention traditionally associated with the field of social action. The accumulated knowledge allows today to propose a more refined classification of the practices of social action according to three strategies: emancipatory, cooperative-persuasive and confrontational.