It emphasizes communication, its development, limitations, distortions, significance, content, and symbolic nature. Client participation in the assessment process is also a hallmark of social work interventions. From a symbolic interactionist approach verbal exchanges of meaning between the client and the social worker are at the heart of the assessment process. Examine the basic assumptions of symbolic interaction theory. Use language as the focus of discussion.
Societies create patriarchy out of infantile fears.
This stage extends from birth to the development of language. During childhood the interpersonal world is expanded to include playmates and other adults. Childhood is marked by acquisition and rapid development of language skills. The juvenile stage coincides roughly with the beginning of school. One of the major conditions of change during this period is the concept of social subordination, that is, new authority relationships are introduced, most importantly in the form of teachers.