The Community and the Social WorkerF.E. Peacock Publishers, 2001 - 389 pagine This text is intended to contribute to an understanding of human behavior in the social environment by providing social work students with an introduction to American communities. The primary focus is on local communities of place. Attention is also given to the communities of interest and identification that are intertwined with geographic communities. Ecological systems and social systems perspectives serve as conceptual and practical frameworks for examining the multiple communities in which people have membership, social identity, and social interaction. This edition begins with an exposition of the societal context of communities. American society is recognized as part of a global community and then examined as a social system, a community of communities, a multicultural society, and a civil society. The book emphasizes the way that discrimination, economic deprivation, and oppression affect populations at risk and demonstrates the role communities play in the pursuit of individual and collective social and economic justice. |
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Pagina 123
... African Americans have histor- ically been influenced by a mixture of class and race factors , of racial discrimination and oppression , and class subordination , leaving them disproportionately located in the lower levels of the American ...
... African Americans have histor- ically been influenced by a mixture of class and race factors , of racial discrimination and oppression , and class subordination , leaving them disproportionately located in the lower levels of the American ...
Pagina 124
... African American households below the poverty line of $ 16,655 for a four - person household , compared to 12.7 percent of the total population and 2.5 times greater than the rate for whites ( Uchitelle , 1999b ) . The median income for ...
... African American households below the poverty line of $ 16,655 for a four - person household , compared to 12.7 percent of the total population and 2.5 times greater than the rate for whites ( Uchitelle , 1999b ) . The median income for ...
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... African Americans in Congress are organized through membership in the Congressional Black Caucus , with an increase ... American community : the mainline leadership groups and organizations , and the black na- tionalist ethnocentric groups , ...
... African Americans in Congress are organized through membership in the Congressional Black Caucus , with an increase ... American community : the mainline leadership groups and organizations , and the black na- tionalist ethnocentric groups , ...
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The Societal Context of Communities 124 | 1 |
American Society as a Welfare State | 30 |
Defining Communities | 49 |
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