Social prevention and the social sciences : theoretical controversies, research problems, and evaluation strategies / edited by Günter Albrecht, Hans-Uwe Otto with the assistance of Susanne Karstedt-Henke and Karin Böllert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albrecht, Günter, 1943-

Otto, Hans-Uwe.

Sonderforschungsbereich 227--Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter. International Symposium 1988 : University of Bielefeld. Center for Interdisciplinary Research)

Series:

Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence ; 0939-0030 11.

Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence, 0939-0030 ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Evaluation--Congresses.

Social service.

Social service--Methodology--Congresses.

Social service--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Social service--Research--Methodology--Congresses.

Social work with children--Methodology--Congresses.

Social work with children.

Social work with youth--Methodology--Congresses.

Social work with youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume contains a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium of the Special Research Unit ""Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence"" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, in December 1988. The theoretical discussions focus on the societal causes of the increased demand for social prevention and the theoretical, political and ethical limits of such measures. Furthermore methodological problems (meta-analysis, evaluation research and longitudinal research) are discussed in general articles and special research

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction

1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies / Albrecht, Günter / Otto, Hans-Uwe

Part I Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics

2. Decline of Community? - Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societies / Berger, Johannes

3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method / Esser, Hartmut

4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? / Brumlik, Micha

Part II Theoretical Controversies

5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies / Otto, Hans-Uwe

Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action

6. Preventive Planning - A Strategy With Loss of Purpose / Japp, Klaus Peter

7. Basic Problems of Prevention / Hess, Remi

8. Verwendungsforschung - Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work / Dewe, Bernd / Otto, Hans-Uwe

Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy

9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work / Galaway, Burt

10. Cooptation and Counterculture - The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed / Sunesson, Sune

11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention / Stinker, Heinz

12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? - The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services / Böllert, Karin

13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? - On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work / Flösser, Gaby

14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts / Gildemeister, Regine

15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk / Gottlieb, Benjamin H.

16. The Lady Is Not for Burning - The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support / Nestmann, Frank / Schmerl, Christiane

Part III Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention

17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies / Albrecht, Günter

Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research

18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation / Cook, Thomas D.

19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review / Cooper, Harris

20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family - Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog / Lösel, Friedrich

21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies / Matt, Georg E.

22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research / Hedges, Larry V.

23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry / Wittmann, Werner W.

Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields

24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention / Albrecht, Günter

25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction / Treumann, Klaus

26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform / Häußler-Sczepan, Monika

27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes / Albrecht, Hans-Jörg

28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts / Egg, Rudolf

29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs / Mager, A. / Hetzel, K. / Yogi, M. / Roleff, K. / Hüllemann, K.-D.

30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research / Kinkel, R. John / Josef, Norma C.

Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research

31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime / Gottfredson, Michael / Hirschi, Travis

32. Incarceration and Recidivism / Hermann, Dieter

33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment / Junger-Tas, Josine

34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability - Findings From a Panel Study / Reuband, Karl-Heinz

35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data - New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research / Strohmeier, Klaus Peter

36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes - The Example of Life-Course Analysis / Huinink, Johannes

Author Index

Subject Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110864328

3110864320

OCLC:

841236912