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Social Change and Social Work
Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.
Gender Equality in Context
Gender Equality has not yet been achieved in many western countries. Switzerland in particular has failed as a forerunner in integrating women in politics and economy. Taking Switzerland as a case study, the authors critically reflect the state of gender equality in different policy areas such as education, family and labour. The collection of articles reveals how gender policies and cultural contexts interact with social practices of gender (in)equality. They also outline the gender(ed) effects of recent changes and reform strategies for scientists, politicians and practitioners.
Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
What shapes our sexuality? Is it a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have concepts of sexuality and sexual norms changed over time? How have feminist theories, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? Focusing on the social, political, and psychological aspects of sexuality, this Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our attitudes to sex have in turn shaped the wider world. Revealing how our assumptions about what is 'normal' in sexuality have, in reality, varied widely across time and place, this book tackles the major topics and controversies that still confront us when issues of sex and sexuality are discussed: from sex education, HIVAIDS, and eugenics, to religious doctrine, gay rights, and feminism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Scientific Advice to Policy Making
Are there connections between the structures of political systems and types of scientific advice to policymak - ing? This volume unites case studies from the Netherlands, France, the European Union and the USA that provide an overview of different institutional arrangements, focusing on issues such as the independence and balance of advice. Common to all is the question which forms of advice can increase the rationality of policymaking without loss of political legitimacy. From the Contents: Mark B. Brown: Federal Advisory Committees in the United States Paul den Hoed and Anne-Greet Keizer: The Scientific Council for Government Policy David Demortain: Designing Regulatory Tools for Pharmaceutical and Food Safety in the European Union Laurent Geffroy, Odile Piriou and Bénédicte Zimmermann: Scientific Expertise in Policy-Making: The Case of Work Policy in France Willem Halffman: The Dutch ́ ́Planning Bureaus ́ ́
Violent Women in Print
West Germany's terrorist period of the 1970s is still a troubling and fascinating subject for Germans, not least because of the high proportion of women involved, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. The present study examines the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s, from the right-wing 'Bild' to the left-leaning 'Der Spiegel'to explore how violent women - both terrorists and others - were represented in image and text. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, and one of very few books in English to addres.
Boys’ Stories of Their Time in a Residential School
This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s. It describes the boys’ trajectories through life, as well as detailing the rhythms, rituals, routines, and relationships that existed in the school. While the focus is on the (former) boys’ experiences, these are augmented by interview material from staff members, including religious Brothers, who worked in the school. Together, these different perspectives provide unique insights into an area of social work history that is ill-served by existing accounts, making the book required reading for all scholars and students of social work; social and oral history; narrative sociology; criminology and desistance and social policy.
History of Social Work in Europe (1900–1960)
Über zwanzig AutorInnen aus elf Ländern stellen in dem englischsprachigen Band Beiträge zu Biografien von Pionierinnen der Sozialen Arbeit und zu ihrem Einfluss auf die Entwicklung von Organisationen und Strukturen der Wohlfahrtspflege vor.
Geschichtspolitik und Soziale Arbeit
Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes der Frage nach, inwiefern es sich bei der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte Sozialer Arbeit um ein politisches Unterfangen handelt. Untersucht wird dabei nicht nur, welche bisher übersehenen politischen Impulse von zeitgenössischen Fachvertreterinnen und -vertretern ausgegangen sind, sondern auch, welche identitätsstiftende Bedeutung der Professionsgeschichte beigemessen wird. Nicht zuletzt wird nach der Indienstnahme der Vergangenheit für die Durchsetzung aktueller fachpolitischer und gesellschaftlicher Interessen gefragt.
Ordensschwestern in der Ostschweiz im 20. Jahrhundert
Um ihren Fortbestand zu sichern, gründeten im 19. Jahrhundert Frauenklöster sozial-karitative Einrichtungen. So entstanden die private Mädchenschule des Dominikanerinnenklosters St. Katharina in Wil oder diejenige des Kapuzinerinnenklosters Maria der Engel in Appenzell. Insgesamt engagierten sich in der Ostschweiz 46 katholische Schwesterngemeinschaften in sozialen Institutionen. Für zahlreiche ledige Frauen war die grundsätzliche Motivation zum Eintritt in eine religiöstätige Gemeinschaft nicht primär die religiöse Praxis, sondern die Möglichkeit zu einer Ausbildung und zur Ausübung eines Berufs. Esther Vorburger-Bossart geht dieser "beruflichen Identität" in ihrer Studie nach und untersucht Funktionsweise und Erfolg des Kongregationsmodells vor allem auch im Hinblick auf das Spannungsfeld von Individuum und Kollektiv. Dabei analysiert sie die gegenseitige Beeinflussung von Religion und Beruf, die Führungskonzepte und Kommunikationsstrukturen in den Erziehungs- und Fürsorgeheimen oder die Einbettung des Kongretationswesens in örtliche und regionale Zusammenhänge.
Borders on the Move
An examination of territorial changes between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and their effects on the local populations of the borderlands in the World War II era
