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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... identified as a cul- ture of violence , the media culture , kid culture , gun culture , or secu- lar culture ( Gopnik , 1999 ) . From a mass society perspective , local communities of place and identification are thought to have minimal ...
... identified as a cul- ture of violence , the media culture , kid culture , gun culture , or secu- lar culture ( Gopnik , 1999 ) . From a mass society perspective , local communities of place and identification are thought to have minimal ...
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... IDENTIFICATION Americans tend to associate themselves with a social class . The basis for their identification may be ... identified themselves as belonging to one of five class categories : poor , working class , middle class , upper ...
... IDENTIFICATION Americans tend to associate themselves with a social class . The basis for their identification may be ... identified themselves as belonging to one of five class categories : poor , working class , middle class , upper ...
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... identified as leaders . Once leaders have been identified , the next step is to determine whether they constitute a structure of community power . Although some “ ideal types " of structures have emerged in the social science literature ...
... identified as leaders . Once leaders have been identified , the next step is to determine whether they constitute a structure of community power . Although some “ ideal types " of structures have emerged in the social science literature ...
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The Societal Context of Communities | 1 |
American Society as a Welfare State | 30 |
Theories of the Welfare State | 39 |
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