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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Maximizing The Impact Of An Alternative Agency, Miriam Galper, Carolyn Kott Washburne
Maximizing The Impact Of An Alternative Agency, Miriam Galper, Carolyn Kott Washburne
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
In the late 1960's and early 1970's the energy for change generated by the civil rights, black power and women's movements strongly affected many professionals working in social welfare agencies. Individually or with others in agencies, caucuses and unions, these radical professionals began to question the services provided by their agencies, the social and political functions of those agencies, and the part they played in their agencies. They began to critique the social welfare system in the United States and to develop some perspectives on what social services could be like if the country were truly committed to improving human …
Radicalism In Casework, Philip Lichtenberg
Radicalism In Casework, Philip Lichtenberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Social casework seems always in tension between some inherent tendency to be radical in a social and political way and a comparable drive to hold on to the established modes of life that are conventional and conservative. The profession has never pretended to be value-free, and within the values held forth resides this tension to which I refer. Similarly, social casework has long been a socially activist field -- as simple comparison with any other accepted profession readily demonstrates -- and in its assertive endeavors this same combination of radical and conservative tendencies can be identified. To a radical, such …
Social Work Practice As Collective Experience, Harvey Finkle, Jeffry Galper, Philip Lichtenberg, Jack Sternbach
Social Work Practice As Collective Experience, Harvey Finkle, Jeffry Galper, Philip Lichtenberg, Jack Sternbach
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This is an account of four workers in the human services who have developed an ongoing collective experience. The four of us, all white, professional social workers, drew together in the late Spring, 1972. We were all involved in academic life, primarily as social work professors, although one of us was detaching himself from academic life at that time.
The Informant Volume Ix, Number 1 Bientennial Issue, Western Michigan University
The Informant Volume Ix, Number 1 Bientennial Issue, Western Michigan University
Informant (1968-1981)
Volume IX, Number 1
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Fall 1976
- Samuel Greene: First Transformationalist?
- New Students in Linguistics Programs (33)
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- Linguistics Department Winter 1977
- Call for Papers
Discourse Management: Key To Policy Development, Joseph R. Steiner
Discourse Management: Key To Policy Development, Joseph R. Steiner
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Skills in discourse management are necessary in order for democratic policy development groups to be productive. These skills, like other skills, are developed by practicing their utilization. A general cognitive frnework, however, can assist one in this development. This paper develops and then describes the use of such a general framework.
Let's Stop Helping The Poor, Donald Feldstein
Let's Stop Helping The Poor, Donald Feldstein
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Excerpt from the full-text article:
The time has come in America to stop trying to help the poor. These efforts have resulted in poor services, inadequate levels of aid, stigma to the recipients, creation of a permanent welfare class, cheating, and the exacerbation of divisiveness in America between classes and ethnic groups. In large part, these negative effects are due to the attempt to target or pinpoint aid for the poor alone; but the poor can only be helped in the context of programs for all Americans.
Phenomenological Social Science And Holistic Social Policy, Thomas D. Watts
Phenomenological Social Science And Holistic Social Policy, Thomas D. Watts
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The reliability of positivistic social science knowledge poses seminal problems for social policy. Needed is more sound phenomenological and qualitative research within the conspectus of the twin theoretical movements of ethnomethodology and the Frankfurt School, towards the goal of a more holistic social science knowledge base as well as a more holistic social policy.
What Kind Of Sociology Is Useful To Social Workers?, Alfred Mcclung Lee
What Kind Of Sociology Is Useful To Social Workers?, Alfred Mcclung Lee
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Both social workers and sociologists have been trying desperately for more than a century to live down their miscellaneous ancestry. Both are still embarrassed that their disciplines are rooted historically in the work of oldtime clergy, police, utopian philosophers, sentimentalists, reactionary manipulators, and radical thinkers and agitators. Nevertheless it was from those men's and women's concerns, their perceptions of social problems, their efforts at social amelioration and reform or revolution, and their inter-cult conflicts that the two corps of modern professionals sprang.
A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study Of Boundary Maintenance In A Hostile Environment, Ray H. Macnair, Greta Hawthorne
A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study Of Boundary Maintenance In A Hostile Environment, Ray H. Macnair, Greta Hawthorne
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Boundary maintenance activities are studied in a public welfare agency as a means of establishing the relationship between the nature of these activities and the essential character of a formal organization. Assaults on the agency are observed through a period of social change, in this case an extreme of racial succession among the staff and administration of the agency. Conclusions point to congruence between the character of the organization and its boundary maintenance activity. Skewed or incongruent boundary maintenance produces disorganization and confusion among participants. In the context of racial succession, universalistic patterns are recommended as a solution to the …
An Economic Analysis Of Economic Inequality, John P. Huttman
An Economic Analysis Of Economic Inequality, John P. Huttman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
"Inequality is what economics should be all about," argued the late R.H. Tawney. It isn't, because concern with the patterns of distribution of wealth and income is shared with production, upon which consumption is contingent. Concentration of wealth and unequal levels of income largely reflect the patterns of returns to labor and investment in a traditional capitalist economy. Additionally, income tromfers, rationalized on other than a labor or investment compensation basis, alter the patterns of income and wealth holdings. Pronounced economic inequality, while prevalent in capitalist economies, would not seem to result from the market mechanism. Broadly based ownership of …
Toward A Working Model For Community Organizing In The 1970'S, John L. Musick, Nancy R. Hooyman
Toward A Working Model For Community Organizing In The 1970'S, John L. Musick, Nancy R. Hooyman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The authors critique the service delivery model for solving community problems and stress the value of citizens developing their capabilities to attack the source of problems. A model for grass roots, autonomous, multi-issue citizens organizations is presented.
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, No. 1 (September 1976)
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, No. 1 (September 1976)
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial - pp. 3
- What Kind of Sociology is Useful to Social Workers? - ALFRED McCLUNG LEE - pp. 4
- Toward a Working Model for Community Organizing in the 1970's - JOHN L. MUSICK, NANCY R. HOOYMAN - pp. 14
- The Incremental Trail in Developing False Doctrine and its Consequences in the American Drug Scene - AVRON HEILIGMAN - pp. 19
- A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study of Boundary Maintenance in a Hostile Environment - RAY H. MACNAIR, GRETA HAWTHORNE - pp. 27
- An Economic Analysis of Economic Inequality - JOHN P. HUTTMAN - pp. …
The Incremental Trail In Developing False Doctrine And Its Consequences In The American Drug Scene, Avron Heiligman
The Incremental Trail In Developing False Doctrine And Its Consequences In The American Drug Scene, Avron Heiligman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The trail of what has turned out to be the criminalization of drug taking behavior illustrates a major criticism of incrementalism in developing policy-- the acceptance and maintenance of specific values and attitudes. The effects of false doctrine accepted more than fifty years ago are with us today and will continue in their effect umtil a radical change is seen in our society. The purpose of this paper is to map the old trail, identify those times where false doctrine was accepted, and to present a radical alternative for the future.
Issues In Evaluative Research: Implications For Social Work, John S. Wodarski, Walter Hudson, David R. Buckholdt
Issues In Evaluative Research: Implications For Social Work, John S. Wodarski, Walter Hudson, David R. Buckholdt
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Various issues in evaluative research are reviewed according to their relevance for the evaluation of social work practice. Specific items discussed are: plausible studies, what should be changed and why, the change agent, criteria for positive assessment, traditional research designs, time-series designs, organizational aspects of research, researchers vs clinicians, researcher's distance from populations served, incentives for research, and the dissemination of information and application of relevant knowledge. Where relevant, aspects of certain evaluative studies are discussed to illustrate the items reviewed.
A Study In Self-Defeat: The Public Health Venereal Disease Clinic, Joseph F. Sheley
A Study In Self-Defeat: The Public Health Venereal Disease Clinic, Joseph F. Sheley
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper relates the results of three months of participant observation and interviews in a public venereal disease clinic. The research was directed toward assessment of the relationship of clinic efficiency (a smoothly operating bureaucratic clinic) and clinic effectiveness (a major reduction of illness within a community). The venereal disease clinic is described as an efficient and well planned health unit with three major objectives: a) checking the increase of V.D. through preventive medicine; b) detection and treatment of V.D. within the community; and c) provision of health services to lower S.E.S. segments of the population. Research results indicate that …
Towards The Development Of Theory: Cultural Pluralism Redefined, Antonia Pantoja, Wilhelmina Perry, Barbara Blourock
Towards The Development Of Theory: Cultural Pluralism Redefined, Antonia Pantoja, Wilhelmina Perry, Barbara Blourock
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The authors are attempting to move beyond the descriptive position, evidenced in the current writing, towards a theoretical approach to cultural pluralism. A series of definitions are presented concluding with the authors' definition of cultural pluralism - redefined. The new definition is discussed, as an operational concept, emanating from participants in the new cultural pluralism movement.
The current societal conditions that impede the realization of cultural pluralism are discussed in relation to a conceptual model, Criteria for Assigning Preferred or Unpreferred Status, that is used to explain our society's idealization of certain personal, social, and economic characteristics.
The authors conclude …
Perception Of Counselors: A Function Of Culture, Victor I. Alvarado
Perception Of Counselors: A Function Of Culture, Victor I. Alvarado
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Outsider Conceptual Definition And Linkages To Several Psychological Theories, Thomas R. Holmes
The Outsider Conceptual Definition And Linkages To Several Psychological Theories, Thomas R. Holmes
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
A Descriptive Study Of Child-Bearing Attitudes Of Harried College Students, 1950 To The Present, Geraldine B. Flowers
A Descriptive Study Of Child-Bearing Attitudes Of Harried College Students, 1950 To The Present, Geraldine B. Flowers
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Maternal Deprivation And Social Isolation On Later Social Dominance In The Albino Rat, Richard P. Banning
The Effects Of Maternal Deprivation And Social Isolation On Later Social Dominance In The Albino Rat, Richard P. Banning
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Behavioral Treatment Of Alcoholism: An Avaluative Review, Kenneth Francis Foti
Behavioral Treatment Of Alcoholism: An Avaluative Review, Kenneth Francis Foti
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Reduction Of Self-Injurious Behaviors In Retardates Using A Spray Mist, Michael F. Dorsey
Reduction Of Self-Injurious Behaviors In Retardates Using A Spray Mist, Michael F. Dorsey
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
An Evaluation Of The Kalamazoo County Jail Rehabilitation Program, Janice Eileen Grady
An Evaluation Of The Kalamazoo County Jail Rehabilitation Program, Janice Eileen Grady
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Self-Images Of Workers With Physical Disabilities Who Apply For Social Security Disability Benefits, Russell F. Guetschow
An Analysis Of The Self-Images Of Workers With Physical Disabilities Who Apply For Social Security Disability Benefits, Russell F. Guetschow
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Response Preferences To Affirmative Action Statements In Job Advertisements, Milo Anthony Masura
Response Preferences To Affirmative Action Statements In Job Advertisements, Milo Anthony Masura
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Stimulus Properties Of Population Density, Robert Alan Schauerhamer
Stimulus Properties Of Population Density, Robert Alan Schauerhamer
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Effects Of Simulator Training On The Acquisition And Generalization Of Pedestrian Skills In Retarded Persons, Terry J. Page
Effects Of Simulator Training On The Acquisition And Generalization Of Pedestrian Skills In Retarded Persons, Terry J. Page
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Attitudes Toward Mental Health Work In A Selected Community Mental Health Service Organization, Frederick G. Greaves
Attitudes Toward Mental Health Work In A Selected Community Mental Health Service Organization, Frederick G. Greaves
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Elementary School Effects: An Explication Of Theory And Methods, John William Fox
Elementary School Effects: An Explication Of Theory And Methods, John William Fox
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Effect Of Descriptive Information On Accuracy Of Interpersonal Perception, Sung Soo Park
Effect Of Descriptive Information On Accuracy Of Interpersonal Perception, Sung Soo Park
Dissertations
No abstract provided.