MODERN SOCIAL WORK THEORY Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface to the Third Edition A Note on Terminology xiii xiv xv xviii PART 1 Thinking about social work theory 1 The Construction of Social Work Theory What this chapter is about MAIN POINTS Practice and practice theories Practice and other theory The social construction of welfare and social work Are there paradigms of social work? Is social work theory ‘modern’ or ‘postmodern’? Arenas of social work construction The social
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1. Harper‚ J.‚ Macdonald‚ G.‚ & Nail‚ P. (2010). Do people use reverse psychology? An exploration of strategic self-anticonformity‚ Psychology Press:Social Influence‚ 6: 1-14. doi: 10.1080/15534510.2010.517282 2. Much research has been done focussing on social influences. An important aspect of the studies is called the compliance paradigm‚ which focuses on direct requests when the requester has either an equal or lower status than that of the receiver. There are three techniques that seem to
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Communication Theory and Social Change Robert T. Craig University of Colorado at Boulder A keynote presentation to the Indonesian International Conference on Communication Universitas Indonesia‚ Jakarta 22 November 2010 The theme of this conference‚ “Global Challenge to the Future of Communication: Digital Media and Communication Freedom in Public Discourse‚” is fundamentally concerned with communication in relation to social change. In this paper I reflect on communication theory as an element
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other rebels must go against everything they have been forced to do their whole lives to take back Panem from President Snow (Larence‚2012). Katniss‚ Peeta‚ Gale‚ all thirteen districts‚ and the Capitol are all affected by social influences in different ways. Social influence is made up of three main parts‚ conformity‚ compliance‚ and obedience (Kassin‚ Fein‚ Markus‚ 2014‚ pg. 255). Throughout the movie‚ all of the characters and their relationships are affected by at least one of these three aspects
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What is Social Networking Website? The definition of social networking is “the relationships that exist between network of people” (Walter & Ribiere‚ 2004). Today‚ when we talk about social networking‚ we think of social networking websites like Facebook‚ MySpace‚ and Twitter‚ which are the top three popular social networking sites in the United States (Alexa.com‚ 2010). These sites are defined as web-based platforms that allow individuals to build their own profiles and reflect social relations
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Social Comparisons or comparisons between the self and others are a constant in this world. Relating information to ourselves in regards to achievements and or failures as well as abilities of others are a fundamental psychological mechanism that cannot be stopped. (Dunning Hayes‚ 1996) Festingers’ Social Theory of Comparison was guided by three central questions: Why do people engage in social comparisons? To whom do they compare themselves? How do social comparisons influence the self? (Festinger
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understanding of this concept. Henri Taijfel’s social identity theory proposed that instead of seeing identity as individualistic it should be looked at in terms of social processes. He and other social identity theorists suggest that identity can be divided into two broad categories. The first is our personal identity‚ with regard to who we are in terms of our personal relationships and our individual personal behaviour. The second being our social identity‚ which is who we are in terms of the
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Social control theories focus on the influences that assist the regulation of human behavior and which lead to conformity with the “rules” of society. The influencers include family‚ community‚ school‚ faith‚ values‚ and beliefs. The essence of control theory is that people will be less likely to deviate if they are integrated into mainstream institutions. The less people connecting to the conventional values of society‚ the more likely it is that deviance will occur. Does the existence of societal
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Social penetration theory was formulated by psychology professors Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor as their attempt to describe the dynamics of relational closeness. They proposed that closeness occurs through a gradual process of self-disclosure‚ and closeness develops if the participants proceed in a gradual and orderly fashion from superficial to intimate levels of exchange as a function of both immediate and forecast outcomes.[1] This psychological theory‚ as with many others‚ is applied in the
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Social disorganization theory attempts to describe the ways that social institutions fail to fulfill their constructive and order-maintaining functions in a particular area‚ especially in urban environments. When institutions such as schools‚ churches‚ families‚ businesses‚ and government fail‚ the individuals begin to suffer because of it‚ which results in them feeling powerless and a lack of purpose in life. In the end‚ this can start to develop some personality disorders in those individuals.
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