Identifying the cognitive and motivational i nfluences on the processes that lead to racism, the contribu tors cover theory, implications for policy, and applications to education, employment, crime politics and health. '
As budgets tighten and costs increase, it is becoming even more necessary that workable social programmes are shown to be worthy of support. This book presents one approach to evaluation -- multiattribute utility technology -- which stresses that evaluations should be comparative, and that all the different constituencies served by a programme and its different goals have to be kept in mind.
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that effectively ended welfare as we know it.
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that effectively ended welfare as we know it.
The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History is a unique reference book that will provide users with basic information about the history of social welfare in North America, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Since many themes and issues are similar in the three nations, entries will provide comparative information about common as well ......
Among the issues discussed are the problems of the current system; proposals for the reform; and the impact of reform on the poor, women, and minorities.
This text is intended to increase understanding of the influences of mass communication of health issues and problems, explore shared responsibilities among media and public health professionals, design strategies and set priorities for influencing policy makers who deal with health issues. The discussions are centred around conflict within various public health, media and academic communities. The contributors also address the complexities of the health information to be conveyed, as well as audience responses to health content in the media. Overall, new "partnerships" among the sectors are at the centre of many of the recommendations for improving the dissemination of health messages.
`John Clarke brings a fresh, critical, "idiosyncratic" eye to the task of thinking about the ways in which states do welfare. He paints a rich and broad canvas, using a palette that blends social, cultural, political and economic perspectives. Changing Welfare, Changing States is an important addition to the welfare state literature' - Ruth ......
Violence against women permeates our society at every level, in every setting. Murder, rape, intimidation, pornography, workplace harassment, incest are all part of a general belief built into the roots of patriarchal society: Women are proper targets of male violence. The chapters in this book, contributed by some of the most prolific contemporary writers on women's issues, explore this culture of violence and oppression, examining its ideological underpinnings and its structural supports in the social, political and legal systems that protect the violent by blaming the victim.
