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Psychosocial Interior of the Family: Sourcebook for the Study of Whole Families

Medical Books

Handel, Gerald

Psychology

George Allen Unwin

Social welfare has a three-thousand-year history in Western society. This book offers a sociological framework that provides conceptual order to the countless details of that history, while highlighting its essentials. Social welfare in all its forms is based on one central concept--help. But there are many versions of help and multiple debates about those versions. The outcomes of some debates have led to withholding help, and these outcomes are an inescapable part of this domain, in the past and in the present. The major versions, their development, and the debates are carefully examined in this volume.Social Welfare in Western Society argues that in history five basic concepts of help have emerged. These five, explored and developed are: charity, based on a relationship between private donors and recipients; public welfare, based on a relationship between the state and its recipients; social insurance, based on a relationship between the state and beneficiaries of its programs; social service, based on people skilled in interaction providing skill-based time to their clients; mutual aid groups (sometimes misleadingly called self-help groups), whose members are simultaneously helpers and those helped. There are multiple versions of each of these five concepts now usually referred to as social policy issues. There are fierce disagreements about what is helpful and which supposed forms of help are harmful to the wider society.The book concludes that major debates have centered and continue to center around these major issues: Should the poor be helped or punished? Who is to blame? Do the poor have the same rights as other people? Who should pay? Who should decide? What is the effect of receiving welfare on incentive to work? Who should be helped? This is a masterful text designed for professional and public reading.

Social Welfare in Western Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mcgraw-Hill College

This text offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of the socialization of the child in modern society. By focusing on theory, social class, ethnic groups and communities, and the role of such agencies of socialization as the family, school, peer groups, and mass media. Competing views on basic issues and related controversy corner students' interests and inspire discussion and independent thinking. As a paperback, it is useful as either a primary or supplementary text.

The Child and Society: The Process of Socialization

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Elkin, Frederick

Psychology & Counseling

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Children and Society presents a comprehensive sociological portrayal of children and childhood from birth to the beginning of adolescence. A major theme is the tension between children's active agency and the socializing influences of the family, school, peer groups, and mass media. The book incorporates the most recent research and theories of childhood socialization. Its theoretical perspective is primarily symbolic interactionism which emphasizes the development of the self. The volume features research that documents cultural variations within American society shaped by social class, race and ethnicity, and gender. Children and Society is organized into four parts, each with an introduction. Part I, "Understanding Childhood Socialization," consists of four chapters. Chapter One reviews how social scientists have conceptualized children, leading to today's understanding of childhood as a social construction. Chapter Two briefly discusses the characteristics of the human organism that both require and make socialization possible, and the characteristics of society that receives the newborn. Chapter Three reveals the range of meaning of the concept of socialization in western and non-western societies and includes a review of the history of western childhoods. Chapter Four offers a careful exposition of the development of the self. Part II, "Agencies of Socialization," focuses on the major agencies that help shape the development of the self in the United States and similar societies. One chapter each covers families, schools, peer groups, and mass media respectively. "Diversities of Socialization" are the focus of Part III. Whereas Chapter Four presented a general account of how the self develops, the three chapters of Part III examine the variations that are shaped by social class, race, ethnicity and neighborhood, and gender. The single chapter in Part IV, "Looking Back and Looking Ahead," stresses that socialization is a life-long process. It briefly sketches issues of continuity and discontinuity in socialization throughout adolescence, adult life, old age, and death.

Children and Society: The Sociology of Children and Childhood Socialization

Cahill, Spencer

Oxford University Press

Psychosocial Interior of the Family

de Gruyter

Childhood Socialization

This book presents a selection of studies that together convey how the agents of socialization operate to induct the human child into society. It is most fully devoted to socialization in the United States.

Routledge

The Psychosocial Interior of the Family

Drawing upon findings from many disciplines including sociology, communication, family studies, human development, psychology and anthropology-this book provides the first composite study of the whole family and of the complex interplay between self and collectivity in family life. It departs sharply from the traditional two-person, cause-effect models used in conventional studies, and attempts to delineate a social psychology of the family. This book undertakes to define and understand the nature of families, to point out ways of discerning different family characters, and to comprehend the processes by which these characters are established and maintained; by so doing, it introduces a new dimension into the study of family behavior and provides a framework within which meaningful investigations and practical applications can be pursued. This long-awaited fourth edition continues the goal of preceding editions: to understand families in terms of the kinds of interaction through which family life is constructed. Contributors drawn from a wide variety of disciplines sociology; communication; family studies; human development; psychology; anthropology; and social work - provide a range of authoritative and up-to-date sources on the family and interpersonal relations, including newly emergent forms of family organization. In providing a new framework for fruitful investigation and practical application, this volume contains the best available interdisciplinary work on the social psychology of the family.

Aldine de Gruyter

Handel's outstanding book provides an insightful and intimate view into the life of a working-class man in a big city neighborhood. He traces the life-course experience of Tony Santangelo (a pseudonym), an Italian, Catholic, construction worker who grew up in Yorkville, a neighborhood in New York's upper east side. The reviews of the initial printing were uniformly excellent. Handel's analysis of the life course of "Tony Santangelo" is an exceptional book, drawing extensively on both theory and methods in a way other life course researchers should emulate. His purpose is to broaden the study of the life course by applying the methods of life history to analyze lives and using the symbolic interactionist perspective. The life history is a longstanding approach to data collection, but its use by life course researchers has not been extensive. Similarly, the foundations that underlie Handel's theorizing are as old as the symbolic interactionist perspective itself; yet life course researchers underutilize this approach today. Handel builds on these "classical" approaches to develop new concepts in making sense of his life course data, and this original theorizing provides useful tools for others to use. Gerald Handel is professor of sociology at the City College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-course Narrative of an Urban Working-class Man (The Life Course and Aging)

Parenting & Relationships

Making a Life in Yorkville, based on the verbatim, unedited life-course narrative of an urban, working-class, middle-aged man, expands our understanding of the human life course beyond the currently dominant approaches. It presents a comprehensive and rounded life-course narrative of an ordinary man through a systematic analysis. By utilizing some established concepts and by formulating some new concepts, particularly relating childhood to adulthood and concepts related to how time is interpreted, Handel offers an advance both in methodology and in the theoretical approach to the study of the life course. Theoretically, the work falls broadly within the symbolic interactionist framework of sociological and social psychological thought. Methodologically, it argues for the careful study of the lives of ordinary people, people who are not celebrities or exotics, thus people who have no claim on public attention. This important new work will be a welcome addition to the literature on life course studies.The first part of the book explores the idea of the life course in its various contexts: the community, the historical, the narrative, and the theoretical. The second part introduces and reproduces verbatim the life history of Tony Santangelo, an ordinary, working-class man. The third part discusses and analyzes the life history presented. Because most life histories are edited, this book, unique in its exact reproduction of the subject's narrative, makes it possible for the reader to use the information in the life history in ways different from Handel's use.

Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man (Contributions in Sociology)

Praeger

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Psychosocial Interior of the Family: Sourcebook for the Study of Whole Families

Social Welfare in Western Society

The Child and Society: The Process of Socialization

Children and Society: The Sociology of Children and Childhood Socialization

Psychosocial Interior of the Family

Childhood Socialization

The Psychosocial Interior of the Family

The Psychosocial Interior of the Family

Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-course Narrative of an Urban Working-class Man (The Life Course and Aging)

Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man (Contributions in Sociology)