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Author : Armand Lauffer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412926539
Rev. ed. of: Understanding your social agency. 2nd ed. 1984.
Author : Armand Lauffer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080392349X
This revised and expanded Second Edition of the widely read Understanding Your Social Agency offers students and practitioners a simple yet comprehensive introduction to organizational theory and its meaning for social agencies. Each of the first ten chapters is devoted to a particular perspective for understanding the agency. The final chapter considers using each of the ten perspectives independently, or in tandem, to solve problems within or on behalf of the agency. It will be a useful guide to solving problems of an organizational nature within an agency.
Author : Barry Barnes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761963685
In this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. It has borrowed notions of 'agency' and 'choice' from everyday discourse, but increasingly it puts a misconceived individualistic gloss upon them. Against this, Barnes unequivocally identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability. Notions of 'agency', 'freedom' and 'choice' have to be understood by reference to their role in communicative interaction; they are key components of the discourse through which human beings identify each other, and have effects upon each other, as soci
Author : Jack Martin,Jeff H. Sugarman,Sarah Hickinbottom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441910653
At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but vanished from psychology. Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency recasts theories of mind, behavior, and self, synthesizing a range of psychologists and philosophers to restore the centrality of personhood—especially the ability to make choices and decisions—to the discipline. The authors’ unique perspective de-emphasizes method and formula in favor of moral agency and life experience, reveals frequently overlooked contributions of psychology to the study of individuals and groups, and traces traditions of selfhood and personhood theory, including: The pre-psychological history of personhood, a developmental theory of situated, agentive personhood, the political disposition of self as a kind of understanding, Human agency as a condition of personhood, Emergentist theories in psychology, the development of the perspectival self. Persons represents an intriguing new path in the study of the human condition in our globalizing world. Researchers in developmental, social, and clinical psychology as well as social science philosophers will find in these pages profound implications not only for psychology but also for education, politics, and ethics.
Author : Lupe Alle-Corliss,Randy Alle-Corliss
Publisher : Brooks Cole
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021390161
This practical and personal guide will alert you to the real-world issues of agency settings - helping you make the most of your agency experience. Lupe and Randy Alle-Corliss introduce you to the most salient issues in the field as they facilitate the process of professional skill-building to help you become an effective helper. -- from back cover.
Author : Hans Herbert Kogler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429980466
A crucial debate currently raging in the fields of cognitive and social science centers around general and specific approaches to understanding the actions of others. When we understand the actions of another person, do we do so on the basis of a general theory of psychology, or on the basis of an effort to place ourselves in the particular position of that specific person? Hans Herbert Kögler and Karsten R. Stueber's Empathy and Agency addresses this other issues vital to current social science in an advanced and diverse analysis of the foundations of social-scientific methodology based on recent cognitive psychology. The book serves as both an introduction to the debate for non-academic audiences and as a catalyst for further discussion for serious theorists. Empathy and Agency provides a solid foundation of the fundamental issues in social and cognitive science, but also presents the most influential paradigms in the field at this time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social service
ISBN : NWU:35556000434621
Author : David E. Biegel,Barbara K. Shore,Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015050816415
Building Support Networks for the Elderly is concerned with the principles of networking and how these can be used to help the aged in a community. A practical guide for the practicing professional in human services, it describes the range of options for care of the ageing, from family care to case management and self-help groups and provides training models and policy implications for these various options.
Author : Patrick Haggard,Baruch Eitam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190267292
Agency has two meanings in psychology and neuroscience. It can refer to one's capacity to affect the world and act in line with one's goals and desires--this is the objective aspect of agency. But agency can also refer to the subjective experience of controlling one's actions, or how it feels to achieve one's goals or affect the world. This subjective aspect is known as the sense of agency, and it is an important part of what makes us human. Interest in the sense of agency has exploded since the early 2000s, largely because scientists have learned that it can be studied objectively through analyses of human judgment, behavior, and the brain. This book brings together some of the world's leading researchers to give structure to this nascent but rapidly growing field. The contributors address questions such as: What role does agency play in the sense of self? Is agency based on predicting outcomes of actions? And what are the links between agency and motivation? Recent work on the sense of agency has been markedly interdisciplinary. The chapters collected here combine ideas and methods from fields as diverse as engineering, psychology, neurology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, making the book a valuable resource for any student or researcher interested in action, volition, and exploring how mind and brain are organized.
Author : Dianne Springer,Timothy H. Brubaker
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803923279
Much of the burden of caring for the elderly rests on members of their immediate family -- usually their children, who often have children of their own. Such a situation can create stress, since the aged may require special care that is time-consuming and wearing. Written by an academic and a practitioner, this is a manual for those who are the care-givers themselves, and for professionals who work with care-givers and who advise on the welfare of the ageing.
Author : Phillip Fellin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social work education
ISBN : UOM:39015064913018
Author : Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016275235
With examples from a variety of organizations - such as social service agencies, hospitals, schools, child guidance clinics and family service agencies - this volume examines current theory on human services as complex organizations. The contributors emphasize how organizational characteristics affect the delivery of services and the patterns of relations between staff and clients. They also address structural features shared by organizations, including high frequency of staff stress and burnout and problems of effectiveness evaluation.
Author : Amitabha Das Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429534379
This book explores a vital but neglected element in the philosophy of social science – the complex nature of the social world. By a systematic philosophical engagement, it conceives the social world in terms of three basic concerns: epistemic, methodological and ethical. It examines how we cognize, study and ethically interact with the social world. As such, it demonstrates that a discussion of ethics is epistemically indispensable to the making of the social world. The book presents a new interpretation of philosophy of social science and addresses a series of related topics, including the role of the human subject in the context of scientific knowledge, objectivity, historicity, meaning and nature of social reality, social and literary theory, scientific methodology and fact/value dichotomy, human and collective agency and the limits to relativism. Examining each in turn, it argues that the social world is constructed through human actions and becomes significant because we ascribe meaning to it. This is organized around discussions on the meaning, agency and the making of a social world. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy of social science, political philosophy and sociology.
Author : Cora S. Palfy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000463330
Music as a narrative drama is an intriguing idea, which has captured explicit music theoretical attention since the nineteenth century. Investigations into narrative characters or personae has evolved into a sub-field—musical agency. In this book, Palfy contends that music has the potential to engage us in social processes and that those processes can be experienced as a social interaction with a musical agent. She explores the overlap between the psychological processes in which we participate in order to understand and engage with people, and those we engage in when we listen to music. Thinking of musical agency as a form of social process is quite different from existing theoretical frameworks for agency. It implies that we come to musical analysis by way of intuition—that our ideas are already partially formed based on our experience of the piece (and what it makes us feel or how it makes us sense it as any other) when we choose to analyze and interpret it. Palfy’s focus on social processes is a very effective way to pinpoint when and why it is that our attention is captured and engaged by musical agents.
Author : Armando Morales,Bradford W. Sheafor
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000997097S
Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces, now in its ninth edition, has stood the test of time as an introduction to the profession of social work. This book includes historical material on the emergence of social work as a profession, the areas and groups where human services are provided, and career opportunities for social workers today. The book reflects up-to-date empirical data about where social workers are employed, what positions they hold, what personal characteristics they bring to their practice, and the competencies required to perform their work. The main focus of the text is on the various groups (most of them disenfranchised), to whom social workers provide services, including children, older adults, women, disabled persons, and members of minority racial and ethnic groups. A new chapter entitled "Social Work Throughout the World" helps readers gain a broader understanding of how the profession of social work has evolved in different parts of the world. For anyone interested in Social Work.