8.Social diagnosis

Social diagnosis is the indispensable element of any technological cycle , even the simplest . Diagnosis is usually preceded by other technological procedures of social work. Social diagnostics - the process of examining the social object , phenomenon by recognizing and exploring causal relationships , relationships that characterize its status and development trends . The purpose of diagnosis is of the essence of the specific social problems inherent in an object or phenomenon , and their description in the scorecard.

Being a technological procedure , social diagnosis includes certain steps . The existing scientific and educational literature provides various embodiments of the diagnostic process . The most common of them , it seems to us , is given in the explanatory dictionary " Social Technologies " . Here Dana management model of social diagnostics , consisting of three main steps . First - familiarity with the object , task , selection of diagnosed cases , the parameters of the situation , the choice of indicators methodologies; second - measurement and analysis of indicators ; third - construction conclusions opinion on the diagnosis .

Some researchers conducting independent stages of social diagnostics isolated holding general and special diagnostics. General Diagnosis involves the isolation and analysis of the most important problems of the phenomenon under investigation , and private diagnostics aimed at recognition and analysis of private narrower problems diagnosed phenomenon.