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A Crucial Event In The Development Of The Rules Of Socioanalysis: The Printing Shop Intervention, Jacques Van Bockstaele, Maria Van Bockstaele, Pierrette Schein, Martine Godard-Plasman
A Crucial Event In The Development Of The Rules Of Socioanalysis: The Printing Shop Intervention, Jacques Van Bockstaele, Maria Van Bockstaele, Pierrette Schein, Martine Godard-Plasman
Clinical Sociology Review
According to the authors, clinical intervention cannot be properly conducted without an appropriate technical tool. Socioanalysis has been founded on the need for clinical intervention: the satisfactory integration of diagnosis, change and evaluation. The present article returns to an early case of intervention (1958), where the elements of this integration in Socioanalysis were technically marked out for the first time. This occured in two stages. A round of interviews, completed by a survey questionnaire, was conducted at a printing shop. The results were made available and discussed with the participants. A co-investigation was undertaken by the members of the shop …
Older Women, Younger Men: Self And Stigma In Age-Discrepant Relationships, Carol A. B. Warren
Older Women, Younger Men: Self And Stigma In Age-Discrepant Relationships, Carol A. B. Warren
Clinical Sociology Review
This study, based on intensive interviews with married, cohabiting and divorced older women and younger men, explores the impact of this type of age discrepancy on relationships and selves. Both the women and the men were aware of the stigmatizing potential of their relationships, in particular that the woman might be mistaken for the man's mother (which indeed sometimes happened). Although the couples' fear of audience response lessened over time, the impact of stigma on their sense of self remained. For the woman, her embodied self—body and face—was most problematic, and increasingly so as she aged. For the man, it …
Socioemotional Understanding And Recreation, Beverley Cuthbertson Johnson
Socioemotional Understanding And Recreation, Beverley Cuthbertson Johnson
Clinical Sociology Review
A socioemotional framework for conducting clinical sociology is introduced. Case studies are presented as examples of two essential clinical sociological processes: socioemotional understanding and recreation. Special emphasis is placed upon the role that specific and general sociocultural contexts have upon the emotional profiles of individuals and society as a whole. Discussed is how clinical sociologists are especially skilled at facilitating individuals developing responsible emotionality and emotional responsibility as they singly and jointly explore, reflect upon, understand, and choose to recreate particular self and other destructive emotional patterns and processes as well as the sociocultural contexts that contribute to those patterns …
Local Solidarity And Low-Income Families: Can A Clinical Approach Be Empowering?, Néréé St-Amand
Local Solidarity And Low-Income Families: Can A Clinical Approach Be Empowering?, Néréé St-Amand
Clinical Sociology Review
This article seeks to determine whether a clinical approach can break down some of the barriers that exist between researchers and lowincome families and individuals, and whether such an approach can be empowering and raise awareness. Research conducted in Canada on alternative resources for low-income families highlights some of the characteristics and limitations of the clinical approach. While the clinical approach can foster closer links between researchers and disadvantaged people, it does not necessarily challenge structural inequalities or promote empowering practices. A definition of the clinical approach is compared and contrasted with the approach discussed in this paper.
Reconstructing Self: Using Deep Learning Groups Among Adult Children Of Alcoholics, Sandra Coyle
Reconstructing Self: Using Deep Learning Groups Among Adult Children Of Alcoholics, Sandra Coyle
Clinical Sociology Review
This paper explores the use of the deep learning group model in affirming the self-transformative effects often experienced among members of self-help groups for Adult Children of Alcoholics (AGOAs). A theoretical discussion of the construction and reconstruction of self is derived from the tenets of symbolic interaction, social construction and narrative theory. The deep learning group (DLG) is presented as a social context in which members' life stories can attain enhanced meaning when viewed from intellectual and emotional standpoints. Benefits from incorporating additional tenets of emotion theory, specific to emotional resocialization, in the DLG model are also proposed. The stories …
Mitigation Evaluation: Preparation For A Death Penalty Trial, Ann Charvat
Mitigation Evaluation: Preparation For A Death Penalty Trial, Ann Charvat
Clinical Sociology Review
The purpose of this article is to begin to sociologically define a legal standard for the courts of mitigating factors that should influence the sentence of death. The article also describes a method of inquiry that makes this definition reasonable. The material presented is intended to serve as a guide for the investigation of mitigating circumstances for the sentencing phase of a death penalty trial. This paper outlines a method of historical investigation that has proven effective in development of evidence at the sentencing phase of the trial. It is useful both as a foundation for expert sociological testimony, as …
Clinical Sociology In Service-Learning, C. Margaret Hall
Clinical Sociology In Service-Learning, C. Margaret Hall
Clinical Sociology Review
Experiences in teaching internship courses illustrate some of the advantages of teaching sociological practice through community service. For example, a course requirement to spend nine hours of each week of a semester in an advocacy group provides a richer variety of opportunities for students to learn about themselves, society, sociological theory, and research methodologies than is possible in conventional lecture-discussion classes. Furthermore, becoming participants in sociological interventions heightens students' awareness of related ethical concerns, as well as of the complexity of social problems, and of how to define viable individual and collective solutions.
Lessons Learned From Evaluating A Five-Year Community Partnership Project, Ann Marie Ellis
Lessons Learned From Evaluating A Five-Year Community Partnership Project, Ann Marie Ellis
Clinical Sociology Review
Looking back over a five-year Community Partnership grant, the practicing sociologists who evaluated the project note some important lessons learned from the experience. Problems discussed in this paper include difficulties with the collection of timely baseline data, transition in evaluation teams and its effects on the research design, data collection strategies that produce varied pictures of program effects, problems in using extant data, and other issues in evaluating a community-wide intervention. Recommendations are made to address these issues and a case is made for using qualitative as well as quantitative methods in community evaluation projects.
On Backtracking My Path To Applied Sociology: An Exercise In Lesson-Seeking Autobiography, Arthur B. Shostak
On Backtracking My Path To Applied Sociology: An Exercise In Lesson-Seeking Autobiography, Arthur B. Shostak
Clinical Sociology Review
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Mediating Conflicting Constructions Of Childhood Sexual Experience: A Case Study, Lynnell J. Simonson
Mediating Conflicting Constructions Of Childhood Sexual Experience: A Case Study, Lynnell J. Simonson
Clinical Sociology Review
This paper describes a case study involving two primary school age children and their sexual experience together. The young girl interpreted the experience as abuse, and the young boy defined the experience as exploration. The cultural, environmental and structural factors which may have contributed to this difference of interpretation are presented. The author discusses the criterion used to distinguish between sexual exploration and sexual abuse between two children and addresses the difficulty in applying these standards to the normal sexual behavior of children. A case study is presented using the constructionist paradigm to mediate the conflicting interpretation of events, so …