Title 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

Published Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1991

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence, 0939-0030 ; 11 Prevention and intervention in childhood and adolescence ; 11. 0939-0030 Contents Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction -- Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies; Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies; Part I -- Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics; Decline of Community? -- Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societie; Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method; Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible?; Part II -- Theoretical Controversies; Introduction: Theoretical Controversies Section I -- Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social ActionPreventive Planning -- A Strategy With Loss of Purpose; Basic Problems of Prevention; Verwendungsforschung -- Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work; Section II -- Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy; Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work; Cooptation and Counterculture -- The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed; Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention Prevention Through Institutional Change? -- The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social ServicesInnovation Despite Bureaucracy? -- On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work; Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts; Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk; The Lady Is Not for Burning -- The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support; Part III -- Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention; Introduction: Evaluation Strategies Section I -- Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation ResearchMeta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation; An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review; Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family -- Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopathology; Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies; Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research; Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry Section II -- The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different FieldsMethodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention; Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction; Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform; Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes; Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts 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 Analysis Social service Evaluation Congresses 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 youth Methodology Congresses Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 30, 2013) "Grown out of the Fourth International Symposium of the Special Research Unit 227 (Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence) at the University of Bielefeld ... held at the beginning of December 1988 in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld"--Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social service -- Research -- Methodology -- Congresses Social service -- Methodology -- Congresses Social work with children -- Methodology -- Congresses Social work with youth -- Methodology -- Congresses Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses Social service -- Evaluation -- Congresses Social service -- Research. Social work with children. Social work with youth. Social service. Social service -- Methodology Social service -- Evaluation POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Social work with youth Social work with children Social service -- Research Social service 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 Prävention Sozialarbeit Kongress Sozialwissenschaften Methodologie Sociale politiek. Preventie. Theorie en praktijk. Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Albrecht, Günter, 1943- Otto, Hans-Uwe Sonderforschungsbereich 227--Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter. International Symposium (4th : 1988 : Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld) LC no. 91030026 ISBN 9783110864328 3110864320

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