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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Evaluating A Pilot Social Service Project For Widows: A Chronicle Of Research Problems, S. Roxanne Hiltz
Evaluating A Pilot Social Service Project For Widows: A Chronicle Of Research Problems, S. Roxanne Hiltz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The decade of the 70's has seen the appearance of a number of publications in the area of "evaluation research", the effort to systematically apply social science research methods to the evaluation of action programs set up for the purpose of helping to solve social problems. Evaluation research is thus one area in which social scientists can be of direct aid in setting public policy about social welfare services.
An excellent primer on the problems that are likely to arise in the course of an evaluation effort and the "conventional wisdom" that has been developed thus far is Carol Weiss' …
Electives And Undergraduate Social Work Education In A State University, H. Wayne Johnson
Electives And Undergraduate Social Work Education In A State University, H. Wayne Johnson
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
From the beginning of its interest in undergraduate instruction, the Council on Social Work Education has stressed the importance of a broad liberal education for baccalaureate social workers . Such emphasis was restated twice in subsequent CSWE documents, and more recently in other materials which enunciate the standards for the new undergraduate accreditation process commencing in 1974. It is much easier to state the notion of a general education than it is to describe its content and character and there is a tendency to become ambiguous. We are prone to resort to a high level of generalization in characterizing a …
Innovation, Involvement, And Contemporary Service Organizations, Frank A. Kastelic
Innovation, Involvement, And Contemporary Service Organizations, Frank A. Kastelic
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Purpose of This Paper
Innovation and involvement have come to be ascribed an almost mystical potency for the task of bringing more relevant services and more human relationships to clients of service organizations. Many descriptive
and hortatory articles have appeared in the social welfare and health literature concerning the virtues of contemporary organizations exhibiting these characteristics, but little in the way of hard thinking about their real implications to service organizations has been done. The majority of the articles are reprises of proposals, or accounts of the first year or two of a program, with an emphasis upon positive prospects …
The Significance Of Ethnicity In Staffing Corrections, Alfred J. Kutzik
The Significance Of Ethnicity In Staffing Corrections, Alfred J. Kutzik
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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Until recently the total thrust of efforts to improve the staffing of corrections has been towards the recruitment and development of trained personnel. In the past decade it has begun to be recognized that factors other than training have to be taken into account. Largely as a result of California's groundbreaking Community Treatment Project the personality of staff is now considered by some to be as important as their training and in a few programs those with certain types of personality and training have been assigned to work, i.e., "matched", with juvenile offenders who have …
Relief Vs. Rehabilitation: Conflicting Goals Within The American Social Welfare System, Matthew Silberman
Relief Vs. Rehabilitation: Conflicting Goals Within The American Social Welfare System, Matthew Silberman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
There are two distinct orientations within the American social welfare system. The first orientation is a bureaucratic one in which heteronomous agencies are committed to a set of externally imposed regulations designed to provide relief to individuals who require some form of assistance in order to survive (Blau, 1965; Friedlander, 1968: 258-284; Wilensky and Lebeaux, 1965:233-282). Assistance usually takes the form of monetary grants. The second orientation is professional in character (Meyer, 1959). In many agencies, priority is given to the provision of the rehabilitative services to which professionally trained social workers are committed in principle and to which nonprofessionals, …
A Follow-Up Study Of Community Organization Concentrators, Hedy-Jo Huss Powell
A Follow-Up Study Of Community Organization Concentrators, Hedy-Jo Huss Powell
Dissertations and Theses
This follow-up study of 1970-73 graduates of the Portland State University School of Social Work was aimed at identifying the community organization and social welfare planning skills that M.S.W.s are using in their current practice. The study sought information from graduates that could be useful in evaluating the current Social Welfare Planning concentration and planning future curriculum.
Two groups of graduates were surveyed utilizing a mailed questionnaire. The first group consisted of the universal sample of former students identified as community organization concentrators; the comparison group was a sample of graduates who had majored in direct services.
The study explored …
Survey Of Parental Attitudes Towards Health Services In The Beaverton Schools, Nancy M. King
Survey Of Parental Attitudes Towards Health Services In The Beaverton Schools, Nancy M. King
Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to collect and evaluate information on health services provided to children enrolled in the Beaverton School District. The primary areas of inquiry in the study were (1) parents attitudes concerning how existing programs have affected their children, (2) parents perceptions of needed and/or additional health services which could be provided by the school system, (3) parents attitudes toward budgetary decisions concerning possible changes and improvements in health services.
Female Alcoholism: The Relationship Of Marital Status To Personality Disorganization, Julene B. Knapp
Female Alcoholism: The Relationship Of Marital Status To Personality Disorganization, Julene B. Knapp
Dissertations and Theses
Research on the female alcoholic indicates that women drink for different reasons than men. Rather than being a product of role conflict as it is in males, female alcoholism is frequently precipitated by stress, particularly marital stress. For exploratory purposes a group of women seen at a public alcoholism treatment clinic were divided into four categories: 1) Non-alcoholic wives of alcoholic men; 2) alcoholic wives of non-alcoholic men; 3) single alcoholic women; 4) alcoholic wives of alcoholic men. These groups were compared. for amount of personality disorganization, using the total number of abnormal scales on the clinical profiles of the …
Curanderismo And Health Delivery Services, Jean Margaret Blaesser
Curanderismo And Health Delivery Services, Jean Margaret Blaesser
Dissertations and Theses
This study explores and describes curanderismo (folk curing) and the cultural disease concepts of mollera caida, empacho, mal de ojo, and susto as researched in a rural Oregon community. Chicano cultural disease concepts and beliefs are then related to modern health delivery services, and a case is made for the need for cultural awareness, respect, and sensitivity on the part of medical personnel who deliver services. The approach of a curandera (curer) and a doctor are compared.
It is strongly stated that Chicanos' health beliefs and practices do not exist in isolation from the rest of their …
An Exploratory Study Of Depression In Adolescents Placed In Residential Treatment Centers, Shirley D. Hale, Kermit C. Jeffrey, Gerald J. Moneke
An Exploratory Study Of Depression In Adolescents Placed In Residential Treatment Centers, Shirley D. Hale, Kermit C. Jeffrey, Gerald J. Moneke
Dissertations and Theses
Concerned that depression might be a common malady among youth who are placed in treatment centers for delinquents, we undertook an exploratory study to determine the validity of this premise. The authors of this study have all worked with youth who, for various reasons, have been placed in residential treatment centers. The authors have observed that symptoms of depression seem to be more prevalent in these youth than in non-institutionalized adolescents, and that these symptoms are often perceived as individual pathology rather than emotional responses common to institutionalized youth. We thus began questioning if these were common emotional responses, and …
Assessment Of Course Impact On Child Care Worker Orientation: Worker Concerns Versus Child Concerns, Helen M. Banaka
Assessment Of Course Impact On Child Care Worker Orientation: Worker Concerns Versus Child Concerns, Helen M. Banaka
Dissertations and Theses
This study proposes to examine the impact of an adult education course on the attitudes and orientation of child care workers. Therefore, the researcher has confined her discussion of the Iiterature mainly to examples of research and theory developed in the area of adult education.
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Every day there are hundreds of recorded instances of children being abused or sexually molested, yet often times nothing is done about it. Part of the problem is that a lot of people don't know what to do.
Academe: Internship: The Delicate Balance, Robert F. Kronick
Academe: Internship: The Delicate Balance, Robert F. Kronick
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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There appears to be a battle that heretofore has been a brushfire incursion, but what may now have the possibility of becoming something more involved. This is the raging debate between "traditional" scholars and those now committed to off-campus or experiential learning. Historically, there has always been disagreement over what constituted learning or how to evaluate what was learned. Now the area of disparagement appears to be over the legitimacy of off-campus experiences as learning and, secondly, how to evaluate these experiences as academic enterprises. As always seems to be the case in debates such …
The Impact Of Directly Mailed Family Planning Materials To Afdc Welfare Mothers, Paul J. Placek
The Impact Of Directly Mailed Family Planning Materials To Afdc Welfare Mothers, Paul J. Placek
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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Communications research has repeatedly documented the fact that people are affected by the various forms of mass media, and so family planning programs have begun to use television (Hutchinson, 1970), radio, movies, posters, telephones (Dabbs and Neiger, 1970), newspapers, and various combinations of these media (Clark and Morris, 1972; Chase, 1972; Balakrishnan, 1967; Takeshita, 1966; Cernada and Lu, 1972) in transmitting the message of family planning. Our present media focus, however, involves direct mailing, which in contrast to other media, often has the advantages of being sent by an authoritative or prestigious source, is relatively …
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring 1974)
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring 1974)
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
- Ethnicity, Professionalism, and Black Paternalism: Implications for Social Welfare Services - Robert S. Bartlett - Page 101
- The "Credential Trap" and Social Work Staff Utilization - Ralph Segalman - Page 112
- Academe: Internship: The Delicate Balance - Robert F. Kronick - Page 130
- Pandora Box: The Liberation of Welfare Mothers - Bonnie Morel Edington - Page 135
- The Impact of Directly Mailed Family Planning Materials to AFDC Welfare Mothers - Paul J. Placek - Page 156
Ethnicity, Professionalism, And Black Paternalism: Implications For Social Welfare Services, Robert S. Bartlett
Ethnicity, Professionalism, And Black Paternalism: Implications For Social Welfare Services, Robert S. Bartlett
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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The assumption around the use of nonprofessionals as members of the agency team suggest that the "bridge" function is enhanced when the new worker and the client-system are similar in such factors as ethnicity, class, cultural background, religion, and so on. Data from a 1968 survey tested Grosser's hypothesis: "that staff similarity with the client in ethnicity...will result in greater accuracy regarding the client and his community (1966:60)". Grosser's hypothesis was tested at a black staffed community action agency, serving a black ghetto in a large metropolitan city in the northeastern section of the United …
The 'Credentials Trap' And Social Work Staff Utilization, Ralph Segalman
The 'Credentials Trap' And Social Work Staff Utilization, Ralph Segalman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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From an examination of the foregoing charted analysis, it is apparent that social work probably cannot make much progress until it has overcome its "identity crisis." Differentiation of tasks based on outmoded or societally irrelevant models can only aggravate, rather than solve social work's confusion in relation to more effective utilization of manpower and resources.
Pandora's Box: The Liberation Of Welfare Mothers, Bonnie Morel Edington
Pandora's Box: The Liberation Of Welfare Mothers, Bonnie Morel Edington
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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The non-"misandrist" mainstream of the women's movement has suggested that, more than women being liberated from male oppression, both sexes need to be liberated from the tyranny of culturally determined sex roles, the last bastion of ascribed status. If all social roles were androgynous they could be based on more relevant criteria. For example, children would be encouraged to develop skills and talents without regard for their "appropriateness" to gender, the male-female ratio in the work force and in nearly all specific occupations would be virtually equal, pay would be equal, and the number of …
The Empathic Accuracy Of Subordinate And Superordinate In The Social Work Bureaucracy, Beverly Louise West
The Empathic Accuracy Of Subordinate And Superordinate In The Social Work Bureaucracy, Beverly Louise West
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Racial Conflict And Institutionalization Of Social Welfare Decision-Making, Walter W. Stafford
Racial Conflict And Institutionalization Of Social Welfare Decision-Making, Walter W. Stafford
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Introduction – Overview
In recent decades, there has been considerable attention devoted to the nature of interest group conflict and emerging structural changes in the American economic, social and political system. The economic changes have perhaps been the key indicators of emerging trends. These changes have been reflected mainly in the amount of economic activity and occupations devoted to services since the late 1950's; the increasing concern with technological growth; the close collaboration between national government policies and planning and the private sector; national governmental assistance for urban and suburban problems, and more recently, the increased mandates of interest groups …
Mary E. Frayser Papers - Accession 1, Mary E. Frayser
Mary E. Frayser Papers - Accession 1, Mary E. Frayser
Manuscript Collection
The Mary E. Frayser Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, minutes, histories, family histories, constitutions and bylaws, membership lists, program notes, photographs, and other papers, relating to her work with the South Carolina Extension Service (1912-1940) Winthrop College, her involvement with the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1935-1952), the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs (1926-1952), the South Carolina Status of Women Conference (1945-1952), the South Carolina Division of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) (1929, 1935-1949), the South Carolina Interracial Institute (1938-1942), the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council (1944-1951), and the South …
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1973-1974)
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1973-1974)
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publisher and Managing Editor: Norman N. Goroff, University of Connecticut, School of Social Work
Editor: Ralph Segalman, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge
Associate Editors: A.K. Basu, Department of Sociology, California State University, Hayward, Harris Chaiklin, School of Social Work and Community Planning, University of Maryland, Ivor Echols, School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Charles Guzzetta, School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, Joan Wallace, School of Social Work, Howard University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Social Science and Social Welfare: Towards A Society for the Solution of Social Problems - ANDREW BILLINGSLEY, Page 1
- Perspectives …
Public Concepts Of Poverty: The County Commissioners' View, Charles Ramsey, Rita Braito
Public Concepts Of Poverty: The County Commissioners' View, Charles Ramsey, Rita Braito
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Every program designed to decrease poverty is based upon assumptions either as to the nature and causes of poverty or what is necessary to help the poor improve their lot (Spilerman and Elish, 1970; Task Force on Economic Growth and Opportunity, 1966; Valentine, 1968). Often these assumptions are only implicit, and supervisors of the program might not even agree with the assumptions if they were stated. Nevertheless, a program would itself make no sense unless certain statements about poverty were true. For example, a program of economic development to increase employment opportunities assumes that, first, much poverty is due to …
Swedish Child Welfare Worker: Estrangement And Alienation In An Ideal Situation, Implications For American Social Policy, The, Wayne Plasek
Swedish Child Welfare Worker: Estrangement And Alienation In An Ideal Situation, Implications For American Social Policy, The, Wayne Plasek
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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Our research was guided by an interest in the attitudes of social workers toward their personal work situation, their occupation, its place in the society, and other matters. It seemed likely that in a welfare state, the position of the profession and the attitudes of its practitioners would reflect its key position within the society. If such expectations were borne out, we might be able to make predictions concerning such attitudes among American social workers should the welfare program be greatly expanded.
The Stability Of The Family Day Care Arrangement: A Longitudinal Study, Arthur C. Emlen, Betty A. Donaghue, Quentin D. Clarkson
The Stability Of The Family Day Care Arrangement: A Longitudinal Study, Arthur C. Emlen, Betty A. Donaghue, Quentin D. Clarkson
Regional Research Institute for Human Services
This monograph tells of an era when an increasing numbers of working mothers found day care down the street with a mother who had a child or two of her own and was glad to add one or two more during the day. Informal family day care met with respect by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon. They studied family day care and discovered ways to create “natural helping networks” in the neighborhood.
Social Science And Social Welfare: Toward A Society For The Solution Of Social Problems, Andrew Billingsley
Social Science And Social Welfare: Toward A Society For The Solution Of Social Problems, Andrew Billingsley
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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Do existing social work texts contribute to a student's recognition of professional values and issues and of the implicit ideological bases for these? The following study contends that they do not, and that their failures are quite similar to those found by Mills in his examination social pathology texts.
Our concern today with social science and social welfare policy is in keeping with the purposes and conceptions of the founders of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In those early days these men and women were idealists- -they were reformists, but they also …
Perspective On Youthful Deviance: Implications For Social Policies, Albert S. Alissi
Perspective On Youthful Deviance: Implications For Social Policies, Albert S. Alissi
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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The way a society deals with its younger deviants reflects the place assigned to youth in hat society. In his famous study of European family life, Phillippe Aries pointed out that for centuries children shared the same status as adults and were mixed with adults as soon as they were weaned from their mothers at about the age of seven. And so it was possible that in England in 1801, a child of thirteen was hanged for stealing a spoon. A girl of seven was publicly hanged in 1808 and a boy of nine was …
Representatives In Government - A Role For Social Planning Councils , Alan Cohen
Representatives In Government - A Role For Social Planning Councils , Alan Cohen
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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I have referred to a key problem of how to make individual and group concerns known to the decision makers without ignoring the weakly organized and unorganized-and without putting both the legislators and administrators in the position of merely ratifying bargaining negotiated between these interest groups. I have suggested non-governmental Social Planning Councils have a potentially significant role to play in the changing need for representativeness for the myriad of strong, weak and unorganized groups and individuals.
This role recognizes the feedback benefits resulting from the proposition that people learn to participate by participating, and …
Sociology And Social Work: Science And Art, Robert D. Leighninger, Leslie H. Leighninger, Robert M. Pankin
Sociology And Social Work: Science And Art, Robert D. Leighninger, Leslie H. Leighninger, Robert M. Pankin
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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We live in an age of specialization and usually find it beneficial, perhaps even essential. However, we have been aware since Marx's time at least that the division of labor has its cost. And though we may be a long way from the unconpartmentalized utopia where an individual might do four different kinds of work in a single day, we cannot afford to let the assumptions which underlie the separation of important jobs and functions go without periodic reexamination. The separation of the work of the sociologist (or, indeed, any social scientist) and the social …
Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling And The Treatment Of Peptic Ulcers, Jack Justin Heims
Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling And The Treatment Of Peptic Ulcers, Jack Justin Heims
Dissertations and Theses
The thesis investigates the role of psycotherapy in treating peptic ulcers, offering a new approach, "Re-evaluation Co-counseling," a peer cathartic therapy.