Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 38, No. 3 (September 2011),
2011
Western Michigan University
Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 38, No. 3 (September 2011)
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- NET WORTH ACCUMULATION BY DIFFERENT INCOME QUINTILES OF OLDER ADULTS APPROACHING RETIREMENT AGE AND 10 YEARS LATER - Martha N. Ozawa and Yeong H. Yeo
- FOSTER CARE WORKERS' EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO THEIR WORK - Alissa Schwartz
- SOCIAL WORK AND CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS IN LATIN AMERICA - Cindy Calvo
- CHILD SUPPORT AS LABOR REGULATION - Yiyoon Chung
- ANYTHING GOES: SCIENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN COMPETING DISCOURSES - Philip Dybicz
- THE ROLE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN MAKING WELFARE REFORM POSSIBLE - David I. Siegel
- SANCTIONING POLICIES-AUSTRALIAN, AMERICAN AND BRITISH CROSS NATIONAL REFLECTIONS AND COMPARISONS - Harry Savelsberg
BOOK REVIEWS …
Sanctioning Policies-Australian, American And British Cross-National Reflections And Comparisons,
2011
University of South Australia
Sanctioning Policies-Australian, American And British Cross-National Reflections And Comparisons, Harry Savelsberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Over the last two decades welfare policies have undergone major reforms in Anglo-Western nations such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Central to these reforms have been the revision of welfare recipient entitlements and responsibilities and the emergence of a responsibility and obligations agenda. The essence of this agenda is conditionality and reciprocity, and it includes the threat of punitive sanctions for failing to comply with mandatory participation requirements. This paper highlights the potent influence of the ideas of American conservatives on policy reforms in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia and provides a thematic crossnational comparison of sanctioning policies …
Review Of Organizing For Educational Justice: The Campaign For Public School Reform In The South Bronx. Michael B. Fabricant. Reviewed By Eva Gold.,
2011
Research for Action
Review Of Organizing For Educational Justice: The Campaign For Public School Reform In The South Bronx. Michael B. Fabricant. Reviewed By Eva Gold., Eva Gold
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Michael B. Fabricant, Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. $22.95, paperback.
Review Of World Crisis Effects On Social Security In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons And Policies. Carmelo Mesa-Lago. Reviewed By Vladimir Rys.,
2011
University of Geneva
Review Of World Crisis Effects On Social Security In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons And Policies. Carmelo Mesa-Lago. Reviewed By Vladimir Rys., Vladimir Rys
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Carmelo Mesa-Lago, World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Policies. Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2010. $28.95, paperback.
Review Of Suicide: Foucault, History And Truth. Ian Marsh. Reviewed By Oona Morrow.,
2011
Clark University
Review Of Suicide: Foucault, History And Truth. Ian Marsh. Reviewed By Oona Morrow., Oona Morrow
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Ian Marsh, Suicide: Foucault, History and Truth. Cambridge University Press, 2010. $35.00, paperback.
Likelihood Of Asking For Help In Caregivers Of Women With Substance Use Or Co-Occurring Substance Use And Mental Disorders,
2011
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Likelihood Of Asking For Help In Caregivers Of Women With Substance Use Or Co-Occurring Substance Use And Mental Disorders, Suzanne Brown, David E. Biegel, Elizabeth M. Tracy
Social Work Faculty Publications
Family members are important to the well-being of their relatives with substance use disorders or cooccurring substance use and mental disorders. Many caregivers experience high levels of burden, negatively impacting their capacity to provide support to their ill family member. The Andersen health care utilization model (Andersen & Newman, 1973, 2005) was used to identify the impact of predisposing, enabling, and need factors hypothesized to predict caregivers’ likelihood of asking for help and support with their caregiving role. The sample include 82 women recruited from outpatient or inpatient substance abuse treatment centers and 82 family caregivers nominated by these women. …
Child Support As Labor Regulation,
2011
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Child Support As Labor Regulation, Yiyoon Chung
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The development of child support policy over the past three decades provides an emblematic case study of the ways in which a new policy that reflects the rise of moral arguments about individual and family responsibility, once established, produces significant consequences for both the economic sphere and political dialogues. I use social control theory to examine a rarely appreciated consequence of child support policies: labor regulation. Particularly, I demonstrate the ways in which the discourse embedded in child support has exalted the importance of work even under the lowest terms, and has deflected public attention away from labor market issues.
Review Of Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship And The War On Poverty. William M. Epstein. Reviewed By Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg.,
2011
Adelphi University
Review Of Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship And The War On Poverty. William M. Epstein. Reviewed By Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg., Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of William M. Epstein, Democracy without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. $65.00, hardcover.
Addressing Work-Related Traumatic Stress Nebraska - Resilience Alliance Participant Handbook,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Addressing Work-Related Traumatic Stress Nebraska - Resilience Alliance Participant Handbook, Asc-Nyu Children's Trauma Institute
Other QIC-WD Products
Child welfare staff are first responders; just like police officer and fire fighters, they are asked to respond to emergency situations with very little information, and by doing so often put themselves at risk. In addition to the very real physical risks involved with responding to a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, there are equally real psychological risks involved with taking care of children and families that have experienced abuse, neglect, family and community violence, and other traumas. Unlike police officers and fire fighters, however, child welfare staff get very little public recognition for the hard work they …
Net Worth Accumulation By Different Quintiles Of Older Adults Approaching Retirement Age And 10 Years Later,
2011
Washington University
Net Worth Accumulation By Different Quintiles Of Older Adults Approaching Retirement Age And 10 Years Later, Martha N. Ozawa, Yeong H. Yeo
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The shift in responsibility for income security from the government to individuals makes the accumulation of net worth a vital issue. We investigated the rate of net worth accumulation for people aged 51 to 61 in 1991 (N=7,544) and 61 to 71 in 2001 (N=5,711) using the RAND Health and Retirement Study. We found that the rate of net worth accumulation by the fifth (top) quintile was extremely high in 1991, and the distribution of net worth became more skewed in favor of the wealthy in 2001. Older adults in the first and second quintiles are unable to face the …
Foster Care Workers' Emotional Responses To Their Work,
2011
Western Michigan University
Foster Care Workers' Emotional Responses To Their Work, Alissa Schwartz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The field of child welfare struggles with high rates of job turnover. This study describes the contributors to and experiences of foster care workers' emotional responses to their work. Uniquely drawing from the field of Positive Psychology, it describes and conceptualizes the relationships of multi-level contributors to foster care workers' emotional reactions at work. In-depth interviews conducted with 25 foster care workers found that negative emotions were more prominently featured than positive, but that working in an agency with positive workplace characteristics mitigated this relationship. Theoretical implications and limitations of taking a Positive Psychology approach to the study are discussed.
Social Work And Conditional Cash Transfers In Latin America.,
2011
University of Kansas
Social Work And Conditional Cash Transfers In Latin America., Cindy Calvo
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are a recent anti-poverty strategy in Latin America. CCT programs provide cash benefits to finance basic needs and foster investment in human capital to extremely poor households. These benefits are conditioned on certain behaviors, usually related to investments in nutrition, health, and education. In the literature, there is a recognizable lack of analyses from social science disciplines related to CCT program implications. This paper contributes in this arena by analyzing the particular role of social work in CCT anti-poverty programs. The educational element of these programs and its theoretical foundation based on the human capital …
Anything Goes? Science And Social Constructions In Competing Discourses,
2011
Keimyung University
Anything Goes? Science And Social Constructions In Competing Discourses, Philip Dybicz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper examines, then disproves, the claim that social work practices based upon postmodern thought are either anti-science, or at the very least, weak on their respect for and application of scientific knowledge. Postmodern thought does attack the epistemological theory of positivism as well as the correspondence theory of truth. Hence, postmodern social work practices do seek to displace the role that scientific knowledge plays in guiding the helping situation. Rather than diagnosing causes and effects in a problem-solving endeavor, science is used to circumscribe the boundaries within which a postmodern endeavor at consciousness- raising takes place. Describing this new …
The Role Of The Neighborhood In Making Welfare Reform Possible,
2011
West Chester University
The Role Of The Neighborhood In Making Welfare Reform Possible, David I. Siegel
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This article will analyze the role of the neighborhood in making welfare reform possible. It will consider the neighborhood and its environment as a context for welfare reform, the influence of neighborhood conditions and effects, recent neighborhood theory building, the neighborhood as a source of relevant values, and finally neighborhood programs that contribute to welfare reform.
Review Of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against The New Deal. Kim Phillips-Fein. Reviewed By Robert Leighninger.,
2011
Arizona State University
Review Of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against The New Deal. Kim Phillips-Fein. Reviewed By Robert Leighninger., Robert Leighninger
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. W. W. Norton, 2009. $16.95 paperback.
Review Of Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants And New American Politics. Kathleen M. Coll. Reviewed By Lirio K. Negroni.,
2011
University of Connecticut
Review Of Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants And New American Politics. Kathleen M. Coll. Reviewed By Lirio K. Negroni., Lirio K. Negroni
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Kathleen M. Coll, Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics. Stanford University Press, 2010. $22.95, paperback.
Review Of American Uprising: The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt. Daniel Rasmussen. Reviewed By Phillip Seitz.,
2011
Western Michigan University
Review Of American Uprising: The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt. Daniel Rasmussen. Reviewed By Phillip Seitz., Phillip Seitz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Daniel Rasmussen, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt. Harper Collins, 2011. $26.99, hardcover.
Review Of The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America's Great Migration. Isabel Wilkerson. Reviewed By Richard Sherman.,
2011
Salem State University
Review Of The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America's Great Migration. Isabel Wilkerson. Reviewed By Richard Sherman., Richard Sherman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Random House, 2010. $30.00, hardcover.
Review Of Living The Drama: Community, Conflict, And Culture Among Inner-City Boys. David J. Harding. Reviewed By Wilma Peebles-Wilkins.,
2011
Boston University
Review Of Living The Drama: Community, Conflict, And Culture Among Inner-City Boys. David J. Harding. Reviewed By Wilma Peebles-Wilkins., Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of David J. Harding. Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys. The University of Chicago Press, 2010. $25.00, paperback.
Moving To Opportunity: The Story Of An American Experiment To Fight Ghetto Poverty. Xavier De Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin & John Goering. Reviewed By Margeurite Rosenthal.,
2011
Salem State University
Moving To Opportunity: The Story Of An American Experiment To Fight Ghetto Poverty. Xavier De Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin & John Goering. Reviewed By Margeurite Rosenthal., Marguerite Rosenthal
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin & John Goering, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. Oxford University Press, 2010. $19.95, paperback.
