Abstract

ARDMIROLA-MENDOZA, Catherine  and  RODRIGUEZ-GIRALDO, Jeimmy Andrea. A look at human scale development in Loma Linda in Soacha, Colombia: ideas for the implementation of a social office. Prospectiva [online]. 2018, n.26, pp.93-119. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i26.5919.

This article constitutes the result of a research study titled A Social Office for Social Work (Consultorio Social de Trabajo Social) undertaken in 2017. The study’s aim was to show the community, group and family needs and social problems of the habitants of the Loma Linda neighbourhood in the fourth district of the municipality of Soacha. The basis adopted was the Human Scale Development approach proposed by Max-Need, Elizalde and Hopenhayn. Focal groups were implemented and the results show the importance of satisfying the necessities of affection, participation, subsistence, comprehension and protection in an interconnected manner. These results justify the possibility of developing a proposal for a Social Office which manages processes of accompaniment for the population’s satisfaction. This represents a challenge in understanding citizenship with regards to identification of problems, recognition of dignity and the coordination of efforts for the satisfaction of human necessities, all of which incorporate individual, family, community and social scenarios.

Keywords : Necessities; Satisfiers; Human Scale Development; Problems; Social Office.

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