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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462547003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 1991

ISBN

3-11-086432-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (652 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbrechtGünter <1943->

OttoHans-Uwe

Disciplina

362.7

Soggetti

Social service - Evaluation

Social service - Methodology

Social service - Moral and ethical aspects

Social service - Research - Methodology

Social work with children - Methodology

Social work with youth - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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