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[...] However, these historically constituted modes of collective intervention in social work would have several unaddressed points. Annabelle Berthiaume, Jean-Vincent Bergeron-Gaudin, and Louis Gaudreau analyze three 'shadows' zones: the conflictual dimension, power relations, and the problematization of 'central' concepts such as that of 'organization'. For example, while women are increasingly numerous in collective intervention, power relations based on gender remain unaddressed. This is therefore the whole interest of being interested in individual social work that is now manifest. In fact, its theoretical positions allow us to think about the notions of 'organization', 'power', concretely, that is to say on the ground. [...]
[...] More broadly, it is possible to distinguish the four major themes that concern collective interventions in social work: it is a matter of social justice (referring to the principle of equality), solidarity (one then privileges the collective dimension of social links and refuses all egoism), autonomy (one wants to give the means of independence to social groups, all the more so those who are dominated, which is patent in Paolo Freire's pedagogy) and finally democracy (all people must be able to think their destiny, but also speak with others, share their experiences). Collective intervention has undergone historical developments. [...]
[...] "Community Action, Militancy, and the Struggle for Recognition: A Historical, Political, and Sociological Reality". Reflets, 28-56 Turcotte, Daniel, Deslauriers, Jean-Pierre (dir.), (2017). Methodology of Personal Social Intervention. [...]
[...] This crisis consists mainly of a questioning of the community dimension of the organization. For Bourque, this would have led to a 'technocratic' side in collective intervention. Finally, the last period of 'consolidation of the profession' corresponds to a period of 'identity affirmation' (Bourque p.62). Each specificity of collective intervention is now assumed. There would thus be three currents that now dominate collective intervention: the 'per-institutional' current, based on collaboration with social services and social administration, and aiming to improve the living conditions of a population. [...]
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