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Attitudes And Practices Of Social Workers Toward The Lgbtq Community, Cassie A. Mecklenburg
Attitudes And Practices Of Social Workers Toward The Lgbtq Community, Cassie A. Mecklenburg
Scholar Week 2016 - present
Social workers have a unique opportunity to serve people by meeting basic human needs, combating oppression and marginalization, and advocating for social justice. The purpose of this correlational, quantitative study was to measure the relationship between attitudes and practices among social workers toward the LGBTQ community with a specific examination of the religiosity of social workers, in order to assess if a social worker provides appropriate, inclusive services, regardless of their attitude toward this community. 2,828 social workers were asked to complete a 42 question researcher-created survey, Social Workers Attitudes and Practices Assessment, assessing their attitudes and practices toward the …
Argumentation In Large, Complex Practices, Mark Aakhus, Paul Ziek, Punit Dadlani
Argumentation In Large, Complex Practices, Mark Aakhus, Paul Ziek, Punit Dadlani
OSSA Conference Archive
Differences arise in macro-activities, such as the production of energy, food, and healthcare, where the management of these differences happens in polylogues as many actors pursue scores of positions on a variety of issues in numerous venues. Polylogues are essential to the large-scale practices that organize macro-activities but present significant challenges for argumentation theory and research. Key to the challenge is conceptualizing the variety of argumentative roles that go beyond the classic normative definition of protagonist and antagonist. A macroscope is devised for identifying argumentative roles in the communicative work of organizations, and the communicative work of the network of …