Planning is the tool and means for social change, guiding human behavior in an organized manner to satisfy multiple needs in balance with available and future societal resources, aiming to achieve desired progress within a specific timeframe. Planning has become a fundamental methodology and a catalyst for the advancement of nations, launching them towards a society of social welfare. Social planning is founded on the social philosophy of a community, broadening its scope to encompass various types of planning, including economic, health, educational, and urban planning. Analyzing problems, identifying needs, creating solutions, and meeting those needs are impossible without planning for social welfare services. This also contributes to achieving social justice, citizenship, and a social safety net that supports and develops human capabilities within the community. Social welfare and its services cannot achieve their humanitarian goals except within a framework of scientific planning based on reason, thought, and evaluation to uplift humanity, improve human life, and enhance its quality in a calculated harmony. This allows for the control and direction of its developmental path to fulfill the purpose of human existence and achieve a continuous, conscious, and calculated advancement of human life. The decisive difference between developed and developing societies lies in the use of social planning as a developmental approach to change. In this context, this book focuses on the theoretical and methodological knowledge base of social planning, hoping to benefit researchers and practitioners in fulfilling their responsibilities towards community development and the betterment of humanity. It is hoped that this theoretical and methodological framework will achieve the desired cognitive growth, to be followed by other complementary, more in-depth, and analytical works.

• Author: Professor Dr. Talat Mustafa Al-Srouji
• Number of Pages: 406
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Binding Type: Paperback
• Edition: First
• Print Color: Black
• Dimensions (cm): 17 x 24
• Weight (kg): 0.677
• Barcode: 9789957922917