Macro Social Work: A Practice in Search of Some Theory

Abstract

The author examines the different approaches to social work practice and education which have evolved, focusing in particular upon tendencies toward differentiation or consolidation and their implications for the development of a unified social work theory. As a means of assessing recent theoretical initiatives, he considers a typology of social work activities based upon the notion of micro and macro social systems and interpersonal and technical activities. He concludes that unlike micro social work little attention has been given to elaborating an integrated macro social work theory. A synthesis of micro and macro theories that will lead to a conceptually unified profession will have to await the maturation of theory on the macro side.

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