in a vehicle parked in her driveway. Apparently‚ none of the bodies appeared to be full term. Ms. Freeman told the police she had delivered a dead and deformed baby. This leads us to an examination of abortion within the U.S. revealing its methods‚ social and ethical issues‚ and psychological aspects. We might ask ourselves‚ what is abortion and what effect does it have on society? According to the Columbia Encyclopedia‚ “abortion is any interruption of human pregnancy prior to the 28th week.” Some
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According to James D. Orcutt‚ The Social Control Theory of crime places a strong emphasis on conformity (2011:97). Rather than focusing on the intrinsic or extrinsic motivations of criminal behavior within an individual‚ control theorists wonder why people choose to conform (ibid). Conformity is the idea of matching your attitudes‚ beliefs and/or opinions to match those of the people or groups around‚ in order to avoid being seen as different. When influences such as personal values‚ institutional
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Caroline Trudel‚ and Alex Wilson; to my best friend Nicole Prime‚ your continuous friendship and educational assistance is appreciated more than words can express; to Dr. Jim Brittain for your influential insight into Karl Marx and the capitalistic social order; thank you to my second thesis supervisor‚ Dr. Anthony Thomson‚ for your unwavering patience‚ which afforded me a space of peace and tranquility that guided me through the thesis process; and finally‚ to my first thesis supervisor‚ Dr. Heather
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Social Learning Theory Donald V. Daul University of Oshkosh Wisconsin Abstract Social learning theory is one of the most frequently looked at theories in criminology. Throughout this paper I will examine the basic premise as well as the main goals the theory tries to explain. I will also look at the validity and limitations associated with the social learning theory‚ through the use of peer reviewed articles. Finally I will describe the different policy applications that are contributed
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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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Discrimination in Health and Social Care Discrimination has many meanings and involves numerous different ways people can discriminate against others. Discriminations can be as simple as someone making a judgment against someone else by the way they dress or the way they speak or it can be the people are discriminated because they choose to be different or have a disability‚ different colour of skin or religion. Discrimination is unfair treatment of a person action based on prejudice. There are
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Discussion Question #1: Choose any current social problem that interests you and explain it from each of the sociological perspectives as explained in the two part presentation and the assigned article. The current social problem that interests me is healthcare in the United States. I see physicians and healthcare institutions raking in large sums of money for the care that they give patients‚ whether the care is good or bad. This cost of this care is out of reach for us‚ unless we are lucky
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As an undergrad social work student at University of Texas-Arlington we are taught how to become a generalist social worker. Becoming a generalist social worker will provide us with a broad range of skills to work with micro‚ mezzo and macro groups from all different ethnicities‚ ages‚ and religions. Professors here at UTA teach us many different models and theories that we can use as tools to work with our clients or groups successfully. A newer social work perspective that I would like to discuss
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The field of Social work is broad in terms of service delivery. Social workers can work in several institutions like Hospitals‚ Schools‚ Communities‚ Day care centers‚ with families‚ in government established re-habilitation centers etc. My focus in this write-up is to highlight the theoretical perspectives of social work practice in the hospital. A social worker who specializes in this aspect of social work can work in other health care settings. In the hospitals‚ social workers can work in several
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Health care access refers to the means by which people obtain health care services (services concerning the identification & treatment of disease‚ as well as the advocacy & conservation of health). There are 3 steps which must be met in order to achieve reasonable health care access: 1. Earn entry into the health care system 2. Gain access to sites of care wherein patients can obtain the services they require 3. Locate providers who are capable of meeting the requirements of patients. Discrepancies
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