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Researching Social Networks In Action, Kenneth C. Banks, Marshall J. Mangan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Many communities across Canada today are challenged by conditions that approach social and economic disintegration. As agencies of the state cut back their financial support of welfare services, citizens are faced with both increasing levels of stress and fewer forms of relief provided by established institutions. For researchers, the challenges of a shrinking resource base are compounded by ongoing epistemological and methodological controversies within social science. The recent emergence of a "postmodern" critique of traditional social-scientific methodology arises from some profound reorientations in the philosophy and the social context of the social sciences, reorientations that are reflective of fundamental economic …

Review Of To Render A Life: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men And The Documentary Vision. Reviewed By David R. Simon, U.C. Berkeley & San Diego State University, David R. Simon

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

"To Render A Life: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN And The Documentary Vision" (1992) and "Long Shadows: The Legacy of the American Civil War" (1992). Both by the JAMES AGEE FILM PROJECT, 316 E. Main Street, Johnson City, TN 37601 Phone: (615) 926-8637.

Review Of Dead Artists Live Theories. Stanley Aronowitz. Reviewed By John W. Murphy, University Of Miami., John W. Murphy

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Stanley Aronowitz: Dead Artists Live Theorists. New York: Routledge, 1994. $49.95 hardcover, $16.95 papercover.

Review Of Kinship With Strangers: Adoption And Interpretations Of Kinship In American Culture. Judith S. Modell. Reviewed By Dorina N. Novle, Louisiana State University., Dorinda N. Noble

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Judith S. Modell. Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. $35 hardcover.

Review Of Classical Sociological Theory. Jonathan H. Turner. Reviewed By Valerie A. Haines, The University Of Calgary., Valerie A. Haines

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Jonathan Turner. Classical Sociological Theory: A Positivist's Perspective. Chicago, IL: Nelson Hall, 1993. $ 18.95 papercover.

Families In Troubled Times: Adapting To Change In Rural America. Rand D. Conger And Glen H. Elder.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Rand D. Conger and Glen H. Elder, Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. $46.95 hardcover; $23.95 papercover.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Sociology. Gordon Marshall (Ed.).

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Gordon Marshall (Ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $11.95 paperback.

Social Work In The Netherlands: Current Developments. Karl-Ernst Hesser And Wibo Koole.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Karl-Ernst Hesser and Wibo Koole (Eds.), Social Work in the Netherlands: Current Developments, Utrecht, Netherlands: SWP Publishing Co., 1994. $19.00 papercover (Available from SWP Publishing, P. 0. Box 578, NL-3500 Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Review Of Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission Harry Specht And Mark Courtney. Reviewed By Jeanne Marsh, University Of Chicago., Jeanne Marsh

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Harry Specht and Mark Courtney, Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission, New York: Free Press, 1994. $24.95 hardcover.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 1995)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEMINIZATION OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC - Mark S. Kaplan
• LIFE STORIES: A PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH TECHNIQUE - Rena D. Harold, Margaret L. Palmiter, Susan A. Lynch and Carol R. Freedman-Doan
• ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER AND CASE MANAGEMENT: INFUSING MACRO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE - Dennis D. Long
• THE IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CHANGING JUVENILE JUSTICE - Preston Elrod and Daryl Kelley
• PROTECTING WOMEN'S JOBS: UNIONS AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION - Marietta Morrissey
• FAMILY CORRELATES OF DELINQUENCY: COHESION AND ADAPTABILITY - Glenn Shields and Richard D. Clark
• SECOND-ORDER VICTIM-BLAMING - Paula L. Dressel, Vincent Carter, and Anand Balachandran

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

• Unfaithful Angels: How …

Feminization Of The Aids Epidemic, Mark S. Kaplan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Although males still constitute a substantial number of persons with AIDS, it is becoming clear that this is a disease affecting women and minority populations more adversely. Today women, while representing approximately 16 percent of all AIDS cases nationwide that are reported to the Centers for Disease Control, make up the fastest-growing segment of the population with AIDS. This article contends that AIDS is increasingly afflicting women who have little economic, political, or social power. Furthermore, misdirected public policy has been partly responsible for the greater incidence of the disease in certain regions and populations.

Protecting Women's Jobs: Unions And Deindustrialization, Marietta Morrissey

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper explores the impact of union membership on a group of unskilled women workers at a public university in a midwestern city. Although the region has experienced high levels of unemployment in recent years, women subjects have been relatively insulated from job loss. Consistent with other research findings on the consequences of unionization, interviews with 18 women indicate that their job tenure is long, tendency to exit jobs low, and wages and benefits relatively good. African-American and white women have slightly different employment histories, however, reflecting patterns of discrimination and occupational segregation in the work place. Regional economic change …

Second-Order Victim-Blaming, Paula L. Dressel, Vincent Carter, Anand Balachandran

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Second-order victim-blaming emerges within a host of rationales given when designated solutions to first-order social problems do not produce the desired results. In certain cases second-order victim-blaming is built upon first-order victim blaming. This article develops a typology of second-order victim blaming based on the nature of problems forthcoming from failed social interventions. It then explores the implications of the phenomenon for those upon whom the blame falls, for other actors in intervention systems, and for social policy and programs more generally. It concludes with a tentative model of the sociopolitical implications of accumulated institutionalized victim-blaming, including the extremes of …

Family Correlates Of Delinquency: Cohesion And Adaptability, Glenn Shields, Richard D. Clark

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The Circumplex Model of family functioning, which includes measures of cohesion and adaptability, was used with a community-based sample of youth (N = 480) to test its usefulness for explaining delinquent behavior. Results from the research indicate that the Circumplex Model is inadequate for explaining delinquency. It was concluded that the two major components of the model, cohesion and adaptability, do not operate in the curvilinear fashion as hypothesized. Rather, the results suggest the both factors are linear in their relationship with delinquency.

Review Of Involuntary Clients In Social Work Practice. Andre Ivanoff, Betty J. Blythe And Tony Tripodi. Reviewed By Margaret Severson, Louisiana State University., Margaret Severson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Andre Ivanoff, Betty J. Blythe and Tony Tripodi. Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. $41.95 hardcover, $20.95 papercover.

Life Stories: A Practice-Based Research Technique, Rena D. Harold, Margaret L. Palmiter, Susan A. Lynch, Carol R. Freedman-Doan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social work, like many other practice-based professions, has historically been concerned about the discontinuity between practice and research. This discontinuity is frequently reduced to a debate between qualitative and quantitative methodology, placing the profession in a dilemma and further alienating practitioners. This article describes a qualitative data collection and analysis process as it was in a large-scale study exploring issues of family development. The use of open-ended story telling and ethnographic content analysis are recommended for use in practice and in practice-based research. Adoption practice and chemical dependency settings are presented as examples.

The Ideological Context Of Changing Juvenile Justice, Preston Elrod, Daryl Kelley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The ideological nature of juvenile justice policy is analyzed, including the domain assumptions of the predominant juvenile justice ideologies which presently inform juvenile justice policy development. Further, it is argued that the failure of present juvenile justice policies to effectively respond to the juvenile "crime problem" may lead to the opportunity to develop a more critically informed juvenile justice policy, one which is better able to meet the needs of clients and respond more effectively to juvenile crime. Finally, some of the essential elements of a critical juvenile justice ideology and practice capable of more realistically and humanely responding to …

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder In Parents Of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients, Carol Farr

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) produces cognitive, behavioral, and affective deficits with resulting problems such as improper social behavior, increased aggression, emotional, personality and characterological changes. The impact upon the survivor, the sibling, as well as the parental subsystem has been well documented in the literature. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been diagnosed in several different types of trauma survivors, although rarely have individual psychological symptoms been studied in parents.

This research examined the possible vulnerability factors that are associated with TBI and their potential influence upon PTSD symptomology. Questionnaires were mailed to 266 parents of TBI patients with a response …

Examination Of Knowledge And Attitudes About Human Sexuality As Predictors Of Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Diane Waymire

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study investigated the variables influencing adolescent sexual behavior. Using cognitive learning theory, social learning theory, and social development as an organizing framework, factors influencing adolescent sexual behavior and the respondent's personal demographics were examined for their contribution to explaining adolescent decision-making about sexual activity.

A convenience sample of high school students from a Riverside county school district provided data for the study. Data was gathered by using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 55 students from two of the three school sites within the district participated in the study during the winter quarter of 1995.

The findings of the …

Attention Deficit Disorder And Case Management: Infusing Macro Social Work Practice, Dennis D. Long

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Intervention with children with attention deficit disorders is complex and requires change at multiple system levels using a social work perspective. Case management, macro social work practice, time allocation issues, the structure of a professional self, constraints in expanding a narrow definition of the social worker, and specific macro level intervention areas for social workers are examined in this context.

Review Of Issues In Social Work: A Critical Analysis. Roland G. Meinert, John T. Pardeck, And William P. Sullivan (Eds.). Reviewed By Joseph Wronka, Springfield College., Joseph Wronka

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Roland G. Meinert, John T. Pardeck and William P. Sullivan (Eds.) Issues in Social Work: A Critical Analysis. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1994. $49.95 hardcover.

Review Of From Child Abuse To Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services, Pathways And Placements. Richard P. Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Derr Berrick And Vicky Albert., Terri Combs-Orme

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Richard P. Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick and Vicky Albert, From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. $41.95 hardcover; $19.95 papercover.

Review Of Critical Issues In Child Welfare. Nora S. Gustavson And Elizabeth A. Segal. Both Books Reviewed By Terri Combs-Orme, University Of Tennessee., Terri Combs-Orme

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Nora S. Gustavson and Elizabeth A. Segal, Critical Issues in Child Welfare. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. $17.95 paperback.

Review Of Reflection And Controversy: Essays In Social Work. Ann Hartman. Reviewed By Ram A. Cnaan, University Of Pennsylvania., Ram A. Cnaan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Ann Hartman Reflection & Controversy: Essays in Social Work, Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers Press, 1994, $21.95, papercover.

Review Of Generalist Practice: A Task-Centered Approach. Eleanor Reardon Tolson, William J. Reid And Charles D. Garvin. Reviewed By Leon H. Ginsberg, University Of South Carolina., Leon H. Ginsberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Eleanor Reardon Tolson, William J. Reid and Charles D. Garvin, Generalist Practice: A Task-Centered Approach. New York: Columbia, University Press, 1994. $37.50 hardcover.

Review Of Interprofessional Care And Collaborative Practice. R. Michael Casto And Maria C. Julia. Reviewed By Daniel Harkness, Boise State University., Daniel Harkness

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

R. Michael Casto and Maria C. Julia, Interprofessional Care and Collaborative Practice. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co, $43.25 hardcover.

Organizing For Power And Empowerment. Jacqueline B. Mondros And Scott M. Wilson.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Jacqueline B. Mondros and Scott M. Wilson, Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. $49 hardcover; $22.50 papercover.

Performance Review And Quality In Social Care. Anne Connor And Stewart Black.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Anne Connor and Stewart Black (Ed.), Performance Review and Quality in Social Care. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1994. $39.50 hardcover. (Available from Taylor and Francis, 1900 Frost Road, Bristol, PA 19007-1598)

The Welfare Of Children. Duncan Lindsey.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Duncan Lindsey, The Welfare of Children, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $29.95 hardcover.

The Sociology Of Social Work. Martin Davies.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Martin Davies (Ed.), The Sociology of Social Work. New York: Routledge, 1994. $17.95 papercover, $23.95 hardcover.