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Specifying Sociological Options And Social Welfare Strategies, Thomas M. Meenaghan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

As a profession, social work applies knowledge constructs from various social sciences. In this article attention is given to the relation between sociology and social work. The specific areas reviewed include conceptions of the social arrangement, the role of complex organizations, and social change theories. Each of these three broad areas have internal variations which have implications for sociology, social work, and attempts to integrate the two.

The Soco-Legal History Of Child Abuse And Neglect: An Analysis Of The Policy Of Children's Rights, Diana M. Richett, James R. Hudson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The focus of this paper is on the two major axes that have influenced the course of child welfare policy. One upholds corporal punishment as the predominant method of child rearing, that is, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." The other defines the status of the child as property of "loving" parents. Because of these two conceptions, the authors maintain that reliance on parental benevolence or the "benevolent intrusion" of the state will not suffice to protect the child's best interests. On the contrary, the examination of the socio-legal history of child abuse and neglect highlights the authors' warning that …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 6, No. 6 (November 1979)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• From The New Editor - pp. i
• Copy of Letter Re Richard Cloward - pp. ii
• The Influence of the Agency Environment On Clinical Practice - ANTHONY M. MALUCCIO - pp. 734
• Social Services In the Iron Cage - JAMES LATIMORE - pp. 756
• Planning for A National Social Policy For the Family - JOHN T. PARDECK - pp. 770
• The Transition To Medicalized Views: Alcholism and Social Workers - H. PAUL CHALFANT, DORINDA N. NOBLE - pp. 792
• A Model Program to Avoid the Institutionalization of Children - PAUL GITELSON - pp. 805
• Women and Leadership: …

The Transition To Medicalized Views: Alcoholism And Social Workers, H. Paul Chalfant, Dorinda N. Noble

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

More deviant behaviors in our society are coming to be defined as medical rather than criminal, so that more control of such behavior is coming under medical and helping professions. Some conditions, e.g., alcoholism, seem to be caught "in between," with serious consequences. This paper looks at social worker perception of the alcoholic as "sick," in terms of a sociological conception of sickness as a social role. A bi-mdal distribution is found for acceptance and nonacceptance. Also, a significant number are ambivalent. The implications of this lack of consensus are discussed.

Women And Leadership: Strategies For Social Workers And Clients, Abigail C. Nichols

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

An examination of recent research on women and leadership yields several strategies that women, both clients and social workers, can use to facilitate success in administration and other traditionally male work domains.

Social Work Education: Radical Thought In Action, Peninah A. Chilton, Marsha R. Ellentuck, Eileen M. Gilkenson, Sharon A. Jachter, Tenley K. Stillwell

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Through the experiences of a group of social work students, this paper critiques social work education and deals with two levels of the educational experience: the oppressive atmosphere of the school and the conceptual content of the curriculum. An alternative model is presented, which attempts to combine radical social work theory with a radicalized educational process and methodology.

The Influence Of The Agency Environment On Clinical Practice, Anthony N. Maluccio

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In an in-depth, exploratory study of their perception of treatment in a family service agency, it was found that clients stressed the impact of the agency’s, social and physical environment on the helping process and its outcome. Workers, in contrast, took the environment for granted or had little to say about it. This paper discusses the findings and selected practice implications.

Planning For A National Social Policy For The Family, John T. Pardeck

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The American family performs two important functions for family members - providing physical care and socialization, and meeting psychological needs. Current family trends suggest that the American family may be having difficulty in carrying out these basic functions. Since the United States lacks a comprehensive family policy, it is argued that a national social policy should be created to better support the American family. A social policy is presented which would assist the American family in performing its basic functions. A suggested strategy for implementation of this family social policy has also been developed.

Western News, October 25, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: United Way Drive Begins, Parents' Day Reservations Due, U. Dames Plan Christmas Auction, Personnel Action Approved, New Associate Dean Appointed For Research; Sponsored Programs, MultiClinic Here Friday, $46.7 Million Capital Outlay Budget Okayed, Complete Text of Remarks By Bernhard to Trustees

Western News, October 18, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: CTO Elects New Officers, Reading Conference Here, Kuenzi Memorial Program Monday, Chartrand; Curtis-Smith Make Scholar Presentations, Campus Boutique Reopens, Campus Watch Bulletin Issued

Western News, October 11, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Energy Expo On Campus, University Entertains 1,000 Prospects, Dick Gregory Lecture Oct. 18, Grad Assistantships Available, Plan Workshop On Dwarf Trees, Dane To Research Stuttering Here, Women's Commission Plans Programs on Sexual Harassment, Personnel Department Memo

Western News, October 4, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Parade Saturday Morning, Faculty Research Review Board Seeks Nominees, A.K.P. Career Day Is Today, 5 Teaching Excellence Awards To Be Given, Parking Regulations Changed, Minority Alumni Honored Saturday, Career Contracting Is Workshop Topic

The Informant Volume Xii, Number 1, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume XII, Number 1

Fall 1979

• National Languages and the French of Niger
• Defining Imperatives
• Faculty/Staff News
• Visiting Scholars
• Critical Language Teaching Assistants
• Recent Graduates/New Students
• Alumnae/Alumni News
• Language and Linguistics Forum
• Record Enrollments
• Loans and Scholarships
• Correspondence
• Linguistics Department Winter 1980

Sentence Building In Reading And Composition, Thomas P. Fitzgerald, Ellen F. Fitzgerald

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The primary objective of this article is to describe an instructional technique called sentence building as a means of developing the ability to read more complex sentences with understanding and to write more complex sentences. The process may be viewed as a preliminary step to reading and writing paragraphs. A secondary objective is to develop an awareness that instruction in reading and composition should be based on oral language skills and may be taught concomitantly.

Beyond Bibliotherapy: Tell-A-Therapy, William S. O'Bruba, Donald A. Camplese

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Schools, perhaps are in the best position to work with bibliotherapy in a preventive approach against mental illness. In America, schools are founded on the principle that reading experience would affect not only a child's attitude, but also his behavior. The first book published in America, the New England primer, contained both religious and secular material, and who would deny the far reaching influence of the McGuffey Reader on the mind of America. Although there is little tangible evidence supporting the claim that reading does influence and change one's behavior, those involved in fostering the learning of others must continue …

Are Perceptual Skills Necessary For Success In Reading? Which Ones?, Jean R. Harber

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Numerous reading and reading readiness programs have been made available to teachers over the years, constructed on the assumption that certain auditory and visual perceptual skills are prerequisites to successful achievement in academics, particularly reading. Many educators have suggested that children who have been labeled learning or reading disabled demonstrate deficits at the perceptual level. In fact, many of those who have been instrumental in the field of learning disabilities have suggested that all learning disabled children have perceptual processing problems and that these perceptual problems are at the root of their learning disabilities (Barsch 1965; Cruickshank, 1977; Frostig, 1970; …

To Teach A Social Studies Concept--Chunk It!, Esther P. Valentine, Olive R. Francks

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

"I don't know why they couldn't answer the questions. We covered the subject in our social studies class. Besides, all the answers are in the textbook!"

Has such a thought ever passed through your mind as you looked with dismay at your class' test results? Unfortunately, this kind of reaction is common to the social studies teacher in our nation's classrooms. Difficulties in learning to read in content area subjects tend to baffle the teacher and present obstacles to the learner. All this can be overcome by a strategy which is based on knowledge of how a student learns to …

Eric Hoffer And The Significance Of Reading, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Eric Hoffer is a most unusual person. He was born in 1902 in New York City and taught himself to read English and German at the age of five. When he was seven years old, he suddenly and inexplicably went blind (Tomkins, 1968). At the age of 15, he mysteriously recovered his sight and became a voracious reader. Hoffer had no mentor or formal education during his youth or in his adult years, but he had books to read from the public libraries of California. After the death of his father in 1920 (his mother died when he was seven), …

Enriching The Beginning Reading Program: Natural Language Technique, Janet Ross Kendall

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A friend's first-grade son came running home the other day to show his mother the story he'd "written" and could "read." The story was one he had told the teacher's aide in his classroom; the aide had written it down for him and had read it with him several times until the child knew it by heart. This technique, termed "language experience" or "chart stories," is an extremely good one for promoting positive attitudes toward reading in children and for providing useful experiences with reading.

Scheduling For A Differentiated Reading Program, Anne Polselli Sweet, Robert Lynn Canady

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A renewed impetus toward the improvement of reading instruction has been provided in great measure by the nationwide thrust toward educational accountability. Educators have been prompted to seek diverse means for improving reading instruction because of the realization that large numbers of average to high IQ children exhibit a discrepancy between capacity and performance scores. Supplementary instructional programs have been instituted; teacher in-service programs have been provided; paraprofessionals have been employed; teaching methodologies have been varied; learning centers have been constructed; management systems have been implemented; and new textbooks have been adopted. Altering the delivery of instruction, however, has been …

Reading Horizons Vol. 20, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 20, issue 1.

Western News, September 27, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 260 Faculty Get Salary Adjustments, University Researchers Cited, Gianakaris New Associate Dean, Western To Offer Doctorate In Public Administration, Emeritus Status Granted Griggs; Lindstrom; Cardenas, Kaufman To Direct New Environmental Affairs Center, Faculty Research Travel Fund Deadlines Set, Moscow State Symphony Returns

Western News, September 20, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Industrial Engineering Accredited, Service Award Created, Tri-Beta Dedicates Trail for Blind, Service Award Created, Fine Arts' 4 Departments To Perform Orff Cantata, Noted Psychotherapist Highlights WMPA Conference Friday, Western Co-hosts Health Symposium, Bernhard Discusses Mission; Research; Student Enrollment, 'State of University' Text, Zupko Wins Composition Competition

Western News, September 13, 1979, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: V.P. Search Is Underway, Kite Flite IV Saturday, Insurance Deductions Explained, Distinguished Faculty Scholar Awards To Chartrand; Hunt; Curtis-Smith, Mission Statement Discussed, New Cordial Corps Coordinator Wants Applicants, Womensports Festival Here

On The Creation Of Truth, David Howe

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

No abstract provided.

Work Place Collectives: A Strategy Toward Decentralized Democratic Socialism, David G. Gil

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

I explore in this essay a possible strategy for the transformation of democratic, capitalist states into decentralized, democratic, socialist societies. The strategy suggested here can be pursued now within the United States and similar nation-states whose formal legal frameworks provide for certain civil and political rights including freedom of speech, press, assembly, association and life-style, due process, etc. More specifically, I will examine the notion of voluntary, social, economic, and political collectives, and networks of such collectives, organized in and around existing urban and non-urban places of work -- fresh cells of participatory democracy and socialism within the aging, crises-ridden …

The Causes Of Turnover Among Social Workers, F.M. Loewenberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

There is general agreement that social worker turnover is not desirable. Yet social work administrators who want to institute changes which might reduce the rate of turnover have little accurate information about the causes of worker mobility -- and without such information, any change activity must be based on a trial-and-error approach. In this study general propositions and hypotheses about social work turnover have been deduced from what is known about worker mobility generally and have been assessed in the light of the available literature on social worker mobility.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 6, No. 5 (September 1979)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Work Place Collectives: A Strategy Towards Decentralized Democratic Socialism - DAVID G. GIL
• Behavior Modification in the Classroom: Education or Social Control? - IRWIN EPSTEIN, CHRISTINE HENCH
• Applied Sociology and Social Work Manpower and Theoretical Issues - CARLTON E. MUNSON
• The Causes of Turnover Among Social Workers - F.M. LOEWENBERG
• The Social Construction of Ages and the Ideology of Stages - VICTORIA FRIES RADER
• Baseline Evaluation: Evaluating Consistency Between Federal Standards and Local Provisions - JAMES R. SEABERG, DAVID F. GILLESPIE
• The Economic Status of the Elderly: Is the Problem Low Income? - JOHN B. WILLIAMSON
• Lessons …

Heroin--Myths And Knowledge: Impact On Public Policy, Robert Salmon

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Public Policy in the United States towards the heroin user and addict has been punitive as well as unsuccessful in deterring drug use or in treatment of the addict. Bias, myths, and prejudices have influenced our policy stance and have made heroin addiction a more serious problem than it otherwise would have been. This is explicated in the article, and contrasted with the British system which in attitude and practice tends to view the addict as ill rather than evil.

Applied Sociology And Social Work: Manpower And Theoretical Issues, Carlton E. Munson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Applied sociology and social work are compared and contrasted historically. Significant literature is reviewed that illustrates chronologically past cooperative efforts. Academic and practice integration of the two disciplines are identified in their modern context as well as trends are identified. Manpower issues that parallel and separate the two disciplines are explored. It is argued that current changes in funding of educational programs could have much impact on both disciplines and determine future differentiation.