Peter Unwin
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420060
- eISBN:
- 9781447302827
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420060.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
Since the 1980s, social work in the United Kingdom has been increasingly subject to scrutiny and managerial control, a considerable body of literature having charted the shifts within state social ...
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Since the 1980s, social work in the United Kingdom has been increasingly subject to scrutiny and managerial control, a considerable body of literature having charted the shifts within state social work as it has changed from being a ‘bureau-profession’, a hybrid model accommodating both professional and bureaucratic ideologies, to being a profession operating in the context of ‘new managerialism’ and being subject more recently to ‘modernisation’. One aspect of the modernised social-work environment has been the rise of agency social work, a system whereby private recruitment agencies supply contracted qualified social workers to what are predominantly statutory settings. Drawing on literature from social work, health, and business, this chapter examines the core issues surrounding the role(s) of agency social workers. It analyses the nature and value of the contribution made to social work by agency social workers within the context of the modernised service. First, The chapter traces the development of nursing agencies and social-work agencies, the emergence of agency social work, and agency social work and models of social work.Less
Since the 1980s, social work in the United Kingdom has been increasingly subject to scrutiny and managerial control, a considerable body of literature having charted the shifts within state social work as it has changed from being a ‘bureau-profession’, a hybrid model accommodating both professional and bureaucratic ideologies, to being a profession operating in the context of ‘new managerialism’ and being subject more recently to ‘modernisation’. One aspect of the modernised social-work environment has been the rise of agency social work, a system whereby private recruitment agencies supply contracted qualified social workers to what are predominantly statutory settings. Drawing on literature from social work, health, and business, this chapter examines the core issues surrounding the role(s) of agency social workers. It analyses the nature and value of the contribution made to social work by agency social workers within the context of the modernised service. First, The chapter traces the development of nursing agencies and social-work agencies, the emergence of agency social work, and agency social work and models of social work.
Ian Sutherland and Tia DeNora
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199568086
- eISBN:
- 9780191731044
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568086.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter explores musical creativity as social agency. Using the activity of German composer Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) during periods of significant situational incongruity — World War I, Weimar ...
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This chapter explores musical creativity as social agency. Using the activity of German composer Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) during periods of significant situational incongruity — World War I, Weimar Republic, early Third Reich — it explores how music is mobilized for social agency in self situation and social action. Central to this is a consideration of how music is involved in ‘connecting personal and social change’. Key concepts developed include: music as a resource for reflexive thinking to situate the self (particularly through counterfactual reasoning); music used to colonize the future; music as a resource and tool for managing and acting situational incongruity.Less
This chapter explores musical creativity as social agency. Using the activity of German composer Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) during periods of significant situational incongruity — World War I, Weimar Republic, early Third Reich — it explores how music is mobilized for social agency in self situation and social action. Central to this is a consideration of how music is involved in ‘connecting personal and social change’. Key concepts developed include: music as a resource for reflexive thinking to situate the self (particularly through counterfactual reasoning); music used to colonize the future; music as a resource and tool for managing and acting situational incongruity.
Susan E. Donner and Joshua Miller
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195159226
- eISBN:
- 9780199893843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159226.003.0010
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health, Communities and Organizations
This chapter proposes a broadly sketched road for human service agencies, which also assume that mitigating the impact of racism may go some distance in helping them achieve whatever their central ...
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This chapter proposes a broadly sketched road for human service agencies, which also assume that mitigating the impact of racism may go some distance in helping them achieve whatever their central goals are. It suggests a framework for becoming an anti-racism organization. It draws from the literature about institutional stages of anti-racism development, offers a description of anti-racism change activities for practitioners, and suggests change processes that social service agencies can pursue. Included is an organizational audit to assist in this process. Barriers and roadblocks, and ideas about responding, are considered.Less
This chapter proposes a broadly sketched road for human service agencies, which also assume that mitigating the impact of racism may go some distance in helping them achieve whatever their central goals are. It suggests a framework for becoming an anti-racism organization. It draws from the literature about institutional stages of anti-racism development, offers a description of anti-racism change activities for practitioners, and suggests change processes that social service agencies can pursue. Included is an organizational audit to assist in this process. Barriers and roadblocks, and ideas about responding, are considered.
Bob Deacon
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447312338
- eISBN:
- 9781447312383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447312338.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter looks outwards from the ILO to demonstrate how the SPF became a rallying point for the struggle for global social policy synergy, that is, the struggle to ensure that all UN agencies, ...
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This chapter looks outwards from the ILO to demonstrate how the SPF became a rallying point for the struggle for global social policy synergy, that is, the struggle to ensure that all UN agencies, including the World Bank and the IMF, agreed to tackle the shortcomings of market drive globalization with a plan to construct a social floor under the global economy. It shows how the ILO influenced the UN initially through the UN Chief Executive Board; how it influenced the G8 and then the G20 under the French Presidency of 2011; how as a consequence it came to be able to try to influence the World Bank and the IMF. It ends by explaining how the ILO was able to play a major role, alongside UNICEF and the UNDP in ‘almost’ bringing it all together in the form of a new UN Social Protection Inter Agency Co-operation Board.Less
This chapter looks outwards from the ILO to demonstrate how the SPF became a rallying point for the struggle for global social policy synergy, that is, the struggle to ensure that all UN agencies, including the World Bank and the IMF, agreed to tackle the shortcomings of market drive globalization with a plan to construct a social floor under the global economy. It shows how the ILO influenced the UN initially through the UN Chief Executive Board; how it influenced the G8 and then the G20 under the French Presidency of 2011; how as a consequence it came to be able to try to influence the World Bank and the IMF. It ends by explaining how the ILO was able to play a major role, alongside UNICEF and the UNDP in ‘almost’ bringing it all together in the form of a new UN Social Protection Inter Agency Co-operation Board.
Carolus van Nijnatten
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424891
- eISBN:
- 9781447301837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424891.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter explores the social structures that affect the development of human agency. Its main issue is the rise of the ideal of autonomy, as a developmental norm, that is a major consequence of ...
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This chapter explores the social structures that affect the development of human agency. Its main issue is the rise of the ideal of autonomy, as a developmental norm, that is a major consequence of the transformation of public policies. In addition, the fall of traditional society and the growth of local and temporary morals are explored. Some recent changes in the legal rules of family life are then considered: the changed position of the judge in vice cases, the liberalisation of the Dutch Bill on choosing a family name and the growing significance of children's rights. The concept of relational autonomy fits with the new personalisation paradigm, emphasising both the need to gain control over one's individual life and the dependency on social structures. Social institutions have withdrawn and in many cases only intervene at the request of individual citizens.Less
This chapter explores the social structures that affect the development of human agency. Its main issue is the rise of the ideal of autonomy, as a developmental norm, that is a major consequence of the transformation of public policies. In addition, the fall of traditional society and the growth of local and temporary morals are explored. Some recent changes in the legal rules of family life are then considered: the changed position of the judge in vice cases, the liberalisation of the Dutch Bill on choosing a family name and the growing significance of children's rights. The concept of relational autonomy fits with the new personalisation paradigm, emphasising both the need to gain control over one's individual life and the dependency on social structures. Social institutions have withdrawn and in many cases only intervene at the request of individual citizens.
Katie Day
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199860029
- eISBN:
- 9780199358427
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860029.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Faith on the Avenue looks at just one street in one city—Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia—and the 80-90 communities of faith that are present on it. Sociologist Katie Day draws from her ...
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Faith on the Avenue looks at just one street in one city—Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia—and the 80-90 communities of faith that are present on it. Sociologist Katie Day draws from her findings of a seven year study to argue that these religious communities are active agents in their local urban contexts, both shaping and being shaped by it. Far from being a benign presence, these congregations are engaging, and contributing to, the urban ecology in myriad ways and to varying degrees. Their agency, analyzed by this study, is captured in vivid images by photographer Edd Conboy. Through both quantitative and ethnographic research, Day analyzes the religious presence of historic churches, small independent Latino and African American congregations, mosques, mega churches and syncretized religious groups within the urban context with a critical clarity, insight and appreciation. For over 300 years, communities of faith along Germantown Avenue have provided spatial and cultural anchors to their neighborhoods, formal and informal human services, subtle contributions to safety and quality of life, bases of social boundary transcendence, and acted as vehicles for establishing identity for new arrivals to the city. This book can change the way faith communities in urban areas are seen by policy makers, students and researchers of cities, and religious institutions themselves.Less
Faith on the Avenue looks at just one street in one city—Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia—and the 80-90 communities of faith that are present on it. Sociologist Katie Day draws from her findings of a seven year study to argue that these religious communities are active agents in their local urban contexts, both shaping and being shaped by it. Far from being a benign presence, these congregations are engaging, and contributing to, the urban ecology in myriad ways and to varying degrees. Their agency, analyzed by this study, is captured in vivid images by photographer Edd Conboy. Through both quantitative and ethnographic research, Day analyzes the religious presence of historic churches, small independent Latino and African American congregations, mosques, mega churches and syncretized religious groups within the urban context with a critical clarity, insight and appreciation. For over 300 years, communities of faith along Germantown Avenue have provided spatial and cultural anchors to their neighborhoods, formal and informal human services, subtle contributions to safety and quality of life, bases of social boundary transcendence, and acted as vehicles for establishing identity for new arrivals to the city. This book can change the way faith communities in urban areas are seen by policy makers, students and researchers of cities, and religious institutions themselves.
Catherine Ceniza Choy
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814717226
- eISBN:
- 9781479886388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814717226.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter examines the role of social service agencies, independent adoption organizations, humanitarian organizations, and individuals in facilitating Asian international adoption in the United ...
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This chapter examines the role of social service agencies, independent adoption organizations, humanitarian organizations, and individuals in facilitating Asian international adoption in the United States. The labor of many different agencies and organizations, it argues, has transformed the United States into an international adoption nation. It also highlights the efforts of charismatic individuals who popularized international and transracial adoption in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, including Harry and Bertha Holt, Nobel Prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck, and screen siren Jane Russell. In addition, it considers Asian international adoption in the historical context of US immigration and how it created a vision of the world in which national, cultural, and political borders could and should be crossed. In particular, it looks at the work of World Vision, a Portland, Oregon-based organization founded by Christian minister Bob Pierce to facilitate international adoption from Asia. Finally, the chapter assesses the legacy of independent adoption programs in America.Less
This chapter examines the role of social service agencies, independent adoption organizations, humanitarian organizations, and individuals in facilitating Asian international adoption in the United States. The labor of many different agencies and organizations, it argues, has transformed the United States into an international adoption nation. It also highlights the efforts of charismatic individuals who popularized international and transracial adoption in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, including Harry and Bertha Holt, Nobel Prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck, and screen siren Jane Russell. In addition, it considers Asian international adoption in the historical context of US immigration and how it created a vision of the world in which national, cultural, and political borders could and should be crossed. In particular, it looks at the work of World Vision, a Portland, Oregon-based organization founded by Christian minister Bob Pierce to facilitate international adoption from Asia. Finally, the chapter assesses the legacy of independent adoption programs in America.
Marc Simon Rodriguez
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834640
- eISBN:
- 9781469603254
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877661_rodriguez.9
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter illustrates how a large group of “concerned south-side citizens” packed the Milwaukee offices of United Migrant Opportunity Services, Inc. (UMOS), a social service agency established ...
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This chapter illustrates how a large group of “concerned south-side citizens” packed the Milwaukee offices of United Migrant Opportunity Services, Inc. (UMOS), a social service agency established under the auspices of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), to protest the mismanagement of this poverty program. The demonstrators sought a meeting with UMOS management to call on the agency, created under the War on Poverty, to better serve the needs of migrants by hiring more former migrant farmworkers and promoting those already working for the organization to management positions. Many of the protesters filling the room at UMOS headquarters that night were former farmworkers from South Texas, the primary sending region for Wisconsin's migrant farmworker population.Less
This chapter illustrates how a large group of “concerned south-side citizens” packed the Milwaukee offices of United Migrant Opportunity Services, Inc. (UMOS), a social service agency established under the auspices of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), to protest the mismanagement of this poverty program. The demonstrators sought a meeting with UMOS management to call on the agency, created under the War on Poverty, to better serve the needs of migrants by hiring more former migrant farmworkers and promoting those already working for the organization to management positions. Many of the protesters filling the room at UMOS headquarters that night were former farmworkers from South Texas, the primary sending region for Wisconsin's migrant farmworker population.
Håkan Jonhansson and Bjørn Hvinden
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346407
- eISBN:
- 9781447303206
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346407.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Organizations
This chapter emphasises the pressures ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ that are shaping the transformation of welfare states. It outlines the dynamic relationship between the different conceptions of ...
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This chapter emphasises the pressures ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ that are shaping the transformation of welfare states. It outlines the dynamic relationship between the different conceptions of citizenship that are produced in these transformations. It differentiates the various forms of citizenship that are implicated in the modernisation of welfare states — liberal, libertarian, and republican — and capture the tensions between the active and passive dimensions of each. It traces the ways in which social policy reforms not only constrain social actors, subjecting them to new forms of governance and new technologies of power, but also open up the possibility of new forms and sites of social agency.Less
This chapter emphasises the pressures ‘from above’ and ‘from below’ that are shaping the transformation of welfare states. It outlines the dynamic relationship between the different conceptions of citizenship that are produced in these transformations. It differentiates the various forms of citizenship that are implicated in the modernisation of welfare states — liberal, libertarian, and republican — and capture the tensions between the active and passive dimensions of each. It traces the ways in which social policy reforms not only constrain social actors, subjecting them to new forms of governance and new technologies of power, but also open up the possibility of new forms and sites of social agency.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236566
- eISBN:
- 9781846313127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236566.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter describes the development of a social work agency. The Manchester and Liverpool Family Service Units (FSU) became firmly grounded in their peacetime style in the late 1940s. FSU had ...
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This chapter describes the development of a social work agency. The Manchester and Liverpool Family Service Units (FSU) became firmly grounded in their peacetime style in the late 1940s. FSU had enjoyed considerable acclaim since its inception as a permanent peacetime organisation in 1948. It appeared to be an organisation that offered assistance, and the attention it drew led to a significant number of requests to assemble new units in urban areas around Britain. FSU also sold itself as an agency that could allow the public authorities to save money. Social workers aimed at encouraging the client to attain equilibrium through adjustment between the inner and outer world. In general, FSU became a well-established social work agency with an unrivalled reputation, and also turned out to be respectable. Its methods both affected and were influenced by the growth of social work as a profession.Less
This chapter describes the development of a social work agency. The Manchester and Liverpool Family Service Units (FSU) became firmly grounded in their peacetime style in the late 1940s. FSU had enjoyed considerable acclaim since its inception as a permanent peacetime organisation in 1948. It appeared to be an organisation that offered assistance, and the attention it drew led to a significant number of requests to assemble new units in urban areas around Britain. FSU also sold itself as an agency that could allow the public authorities to save money. Social workers aimed at encouraging the client to attain equilibrium through adjustment between the inner and outer world. In general, FSU became a well-established social work agency with an unrivalled reputation, and also turned out to be respectable. Its methods both affected and were influenced by the growth of social work as a profession.
Sarah-Anne Buckley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719087660
- eISBN:
- 9781781706275
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719087660.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter Three addresses the period from 1922 to the setting up of the ISPCC in 1956. From 1922, the Society had to adjust its focus to survive in independent Ireland. This notion of ‘crisis and ...
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Chapter Three addresses the period from 1922 to the setting up of the ISPCC in 1956. From 1922, the Society had to adjust its focus to survive in independent Ireland. This notion of ‘crisis and change’ was not unique to the Irish Society, but Irish circumstances exacerbated the need for changing foci. In the aftermath of the First World War, many states had engaged in a discourse on the rights of children, the role of the State in child welfare and interventions in the family. For the Irish NSPCC, the challenges to its existence were significantly increased due to the Catholic Church’s increasing influence in child welfare; a loss in the earlier financial support provided by the Anglo-Irish; and increasing numbers of families approaching it for material assistance. Its response was to redefine its role - now providing advice and material assistance, not solely threatening and prosecuting parents. The expansion and re-categorisation of child neglect was central to this, as was the Society’s efforts in highlighting issues of over-crowding, children’s courts, widow’s pensions, poor relief, illegitimacy, and desertion. Although these were pertinent issues, the issues the Society chose to ignore demonstrate its continuing collaboration with the State, most significantly in its involvement in prosecuting parents and sending children to industrial schools.Less
Chapter Three addresses the period from 1922 to the setting up of the ISPCC in 1956. From 1922, the Society had to adjust its focus to survive in independent Ireland. This notion of ‘crisis and change’ was not unique to the Irish Society, but Irish circumstances exacerbated the need for changing foci. In the aftermath of the First World War, many states had engaged in a discourse on the rights of children, the role of the State in child welfare and interventions in the family. For the Irish NSPCC, the challenges to its existence were significantly increased due to the Catholic Church’s increasing influence in child welfare; a loss in the earlier financial support provided by the Anglo-Irish; and increasing numbers of families approaching it for material assistance. Its response was to redefine its role - now providing advice and material assistance, not solely threatening and prosecuting parents. The expansion and re-categorisation of child neglect was central to this, as was the Society’s efforts in highlighting issues of over-crowding, children’s courts, widow’s pensions, poor relief, illegitimacy, and desertion. Although these were pertinent issues, the issues the Society chose to ignore demonstrate its continuing collaboration with the State, most significantly in its involvement in prosecuting parents and sending children to industrial schools.
Derek Pardue
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039676
- eISBN:
- 9780252097768
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039676.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
Musicians rapping in Kriolu—a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde—have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and ...
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Musicians rapping in Kriolu—a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde—have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the Kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, this book introduces Lisbon's Kriolu rap scene and the role of rap music in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. It demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As the book argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription.Less
Musicians rapping in Kriolu—a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde—have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the Kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, this book introduces Lisbon's Kriolu rap scene and the role of rap music in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. It demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As the book argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription.
Meryl Nadel
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190496548
- eISBN:
- 9780190496579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190496548.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Communities and Organizations
“From Fresh Air to Summer Camp: Social Work Enters the Picture” traces developments occurring from about 1900 to 1926. During this period the new profession of social work coalesced, incorporated the ...
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“From Fresh Air to Summer Camp: Social Work Enters the Picture” traces developments occurring from about 1900 to 1926. During this period the new profession of social work coalesced, incorporated the reform spirit of the Progressive Era, began to develop rationales for programs that could best benefit residents of congested urban environments, and established numerous social agency-sponsored summer camps. The purposes of these camps varied and included improved health and weight gain, play, Americanization, progressive informal education, skill-building, and group life as a milieu for growth and change. The chapter includes descriptions of four early social agency summer camp programs: Surprise Lake Camp, Lillian Home, Camp Wise, and the camps at Harriman State Park, Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC).Less
“From Fresh Air to Summer Camp: Social Work Enters the Picture” traces developments occurring from about 1900 to 1926. During this period the new profession of social work coalesced, incorporated the reform spirit of the Progressive Era, began to develop rationales for programs that could best benefit residents of congested urban environments, and established numerous social agency-sponsored summer camps. The purposes of these camps varied and included improved health and weight gain, play, Americanization, progressive informal education, skill-building, and group life as a milieu for growth and change. The chapter includes descriptions of four early social agency summer camp programs: Surprise Lake Camp, Lillian Home, Camp Wise, and the camps at Harriman State Park, Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC).
Janet Newman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346407
- eISBN:
- 9781447303206
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346407.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Organizations
This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social ...
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This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social agency. It argues that governance shifts are profoundly political in that they reshape the public realm of welfare-state provision and redraw citizenship rights and responsibilities. It offers novel ways of conceptualising the ‘people’ around imaginary unities of interest or identity. It also opens up the possibility of changing the terrain of political engagement and action. It suggests a politics of the social rather than a view of politics as separate from society. It explores how new tactics of governance rest on cultural projects concerned with reconstituting peoples and publics as governable entities, while also holding on to the idea that these cultural projects are subject to contestation, struggle, and dissent.Less
This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social agency. It argues that governance shifts are profoundly political in that they reshape the public realm of welfare-state provision and redraw citizenship rights and responsibilities. It offers novel ways of conceptualising the ‘people’ around imaginary unities of interest or identity. It also opens up the possibility of changing the terrain of political engagement and action. It suggests a politics of the social rather than a view of politics as separate from society. It explores how new tactics of governance rest on cultural projects concerned with reconstituting peoples and publics as governable entities, while also holding on to the idea that these cultural projects are subject to contestation, struggle, and dissent.
Nicky Stanley, Bridget Penhale, Denise Riordan, Rosaline S. Barbour, and Sue Holden
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861344274
- eISBN:
- 9781447301707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861344274.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter outlines the methodology used for the research and reports on the pilot study completed in 1997. Funding for the project came from a number of sources, including the University of Hull, ...
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This chapter outlines the methodology used for the research and reports on the pilot study completed in 1997. Funding for the project came from a number of sources, including the University of Hull, a NHS trust and a health authority. The study was fuelled by a desire to understand the response of a range of health and social care agencies to two contrasting sets of needs in families. The study explored the nature of serious mental health problems in mothers whose children were on the child protection register, and examined the extent to which different professionals worked together to meet the family's needs.Less
This chapter outlines the methodology used for the research and reports on the pilot study completed in 1997. Funding for the project came from a number of sources, including the University of Hull, a NHS trust and a health authority. The study was fuelled by a desire to understand the response of a range of health and social care agencies to two contrasting sets of needs in families. The study explored the nature of serious mental health problems in mothers whose children were on the child protection register, and examined the extent to which different professionals worked together to meet the family's needs.
Pat Starkey (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236566
- eISBN:
- 9781846313127
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313127
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This book examines the origins, development, and impact of Family Service Units (FSUs), a voluntary social work agency that, during the post-war period, exercised an influence on the development of ...
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This book examines the origins, development, and impact of Family Service Units (FSUs), a voluntary social work agency that, during the post-war period, exercised an influence on the development of social work practice and training out of all proportion to its size and resources. Originating in the activities of conscientious objectors in Liverpool, Manchester, and Stepney during the Second World War, FSU's innovative methods of working with poor families led to the establishment of units in towns and cities throughout Britain. This study shows how FSU met the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of state-run social services; evaluates its successes and failures in terms of the aims that units set themselves; and examines the conflicts which arose between FSU's commitment to independence and innovation and its dependence on local authority funding.Less
This book examines the origins, development, and impact of Family Service Units (FSUs), a voluntary social work agency that, during the post-war period, exercised an influence on the development of social work practice and training out of all proportion to its size and resources. Originating in the activities of conscientious objectors in Liverpool, Manchester, and Stepney during the Second World War, FSU's innovative methods of working with poor families led to the establishment of units in towns and cities throughout Britain. This study shows how FSU met the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of state-run social services; evaluates its successes and failures in terms of the aims that units set themselves; and examines the conflicts which arose between FSU's commitment to independence and innovation and its dependence on local authority funding.
Ton Otto
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833664
- eISBN:
- 9780824870355
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833664.003.0010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Traditions are forms of historical knowledge that elaborate on social practices and that are consciously orchestrated (e.g. as ceremonies or learning situations). A special kind of tradition puts ...
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Traditions are forms of historical knowledge that elaborate on social practices and that are consciously orchestrated (e.g. as ceremonies or learning situations). A special kind of tradition puts weight on an assumed continuity with the past. In Melanesia these traditions are often referred to as kastam or kastamwok. This chapter focuses on Manus, Papua New Guinea, where kastam ceremonies have become an important arena for social action, during which historical memory is negotiated. It argues that kastam as an indigenous field of action with reference to the past first originated in the 1960s as a result of “inventions” by a number of local leaders. This invention of tradition must be seen against the background of the massive abolishment of indigenous ceremonies by the Paliau Movement in the 1950s, which thereby introduced the concept of tradition (as a negative category). The reintroduction of “traditional” ceremonies raises questions about social agency and the use of various forms of historical memories in the context of colonial and postcolonial modernity.Less
Traditions are forms of historical knowledge that elaborate on social practices and that are consciously orchestrated (e.g. as ceremonies or learning situations). A special kind of tradition puts weight on an assumed continuity with the past. In Melanesia these traditions are often referred to as kastam or kastamwok. This chapter focuses on Manus, Papua New Guinea, where kastam ceremonies have become an important arena for social action, during which historical memory is negotiated. It argues that kastam as an indigenous field of action with reference to the past first originated in the 1960s as a result of “inventions” by a number of local leaders. This invention of tradition must be seen against the background of the massive abolishment of indigenous ceremonies by the Paliau Movement in the 1950s, which thereby introduced the concept of tradition (as a negative category). The reintroduction of “traditional” ceremonies raises questions about social agency and the use of various forms of historical memories in the context of colonial and postcolonial modernity.
Tina K. Ramnarine (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199352227
- eISBN:
- 9780199352258
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199352227.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book adopts global perspectives on orchestras. It draws on ethnographic, historical and comparative approaches to analyze a variety of orchestral traditions (such as symphony, steel, Indonesian ...
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This book adopts global perspectives on orchestras. It draws on ethnographic, historical and comparative approaches to analyze a variety of orchestral traditions (such as symphony, steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court). It discusses how orchestras are embedded in socio-historical and economic contexts, and highlights intercultural, compositional and rehearsal processes. The chapters describe orchestral creativity and performance politics. Key considerations are how orchestral musicians work together and organizational infrastructures shaping the orchestra as an institution. Orchestral musicians' testimonies are included to give practitioners' views. The study of orchestras contributes to developing global music histories and comparative theorization within ethnographic disciplines. This book offers timely insights into the connections between orchestras, colonial histories, postcolonial practices, and comparative theorizations to generate appreciation of orchestral performance as a creative, political and social practice.Less
This book adopts global perspectives on orchestras. It draws on ethnographic, historical and comparative approaches to analyze a variety of orchestral traditions (such as symphony, steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court). It discusses how orchestras are embedded in socio-historical and economic contexts, and highlights intercultural, compositional and rehearsal processes. The chapters describe orchestral creativity and performance politics. Key considerations are how orchestral musicians work together and organizational infrastructures shaping the orchestra as an institution. Orchestral musicians' testimonies are included to give practitioners' views. The study of orchestras contributes to developing global music histories and comparative theorization within ethnographic disciplines. This book offers timely insights into the connections between orchestras, colonial histories, postcolonial practices, and comparative theorizations to generate appreciation of orchestral performance as a creative, political and social practice.
GerShun Avilez
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040122
- eISBN:
- 9780252098321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040122.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter tracks how artists investigate the discourse of reproduction not simply to explore dual meanings, but rather to consider how the politicized concept of reproduction functions as a ...
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This chapter tracks how artists investigate the discourse of reproduction not simply to explore dual meanings, but rather to consider how the politicized concept of reproduction functions as a contested means for conveying gender identity. In her painted quilt sequence The Slave Rape Series, Faith Ringgold uses reproduction to establish a visual interrogation of Black gender identity and to probe the implications of the commitment to reproductive paradigms. Her paintings of the pregnant body create the opportunity to recast the images circulating in political discourse, which favor restrictive conceptions of gender expression, especially in regard to femininity. On the other hand, Toni Morrison's novel Paradise (1997) moves the questioning of reproduction to the realm of narrative and enhances the exploration of masculinity. Meanwhile, Spike Lee's feature film She Hate Me (2004) evokes nationalist strategies by offering an exploration of reproduction as a viable mechanism for resolving social anxieties about gender identity and for rearticulating Black social agency.Less
This chapter tracks how artists investigate the discourse of reproduction not simply to explore dual meanings, but rather to consider how the politicized concept of reproduction functions as a contested means for conveying gender identity. In her painted quilt sequence The Slave Rape Series, Faith Ringgold uses reproduction to establish a visual interrogation of Black gender identity and to probe the implications of the commitment to reproductive paradigms. Her paintings of the pregnant body create the opportunity to recast the images circulating in political discourse, which favor restrictive conceptions of gender expression, especially in regard to femininity. On the other hand, Toni Morrison's novel Paradise (1997) moves the questioning of reproduction to the realm of narrative and enhances the exploration of masculinity. Meanwhile, Spike Lee's feature film She Hate Me (2004) evokes nationalist strategies by offering an exploration of reproduction as a viable mechanism for resolving social anxieties about gender identity and for rearticulating Black social agency.
Sarah Whatmore
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199260744
- eISBN:
- 9780191698675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260744.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
Various issues of both law and geography are given much attention by governing bodies, science, commerce, and space-time matters that are concerned mainly with environmental management across the ...
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Various issues of both law and geography are given much attention by governing bodies, science, commerce, and space-time matters that are concerned mainly with environmental management across the world. As such, property, as asserted by Nick Blomley in Law, Space and the Geographies of Power, is said to be one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant, issue that serves as a link or common ground to conversations regarding both the aspects of government and law. Critical variants of such conversations are not to be perceived as configurations of space or justice, they should be recognized for their cultural and historical significance. This chapter attempts to inform about the importance of property rights and how such may be able to alter relationality, social agency, and the various institutional forms of territorialization.Less
Various issues of both law and geography are given much attention by governing bodies, science, commerce, and space-time matters that are concerned mainly with environmental management across the world. As such, property, as asserted by Nick Blomley in Law, Space and the Geographies of Power, is said to be one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant, issue that serves as a link or common ground to conversations regarding both the aspects of government and law. Critical variants of such conversations are not to be perceived as configurations of space or justice, they should be recognized for their cultural and historical significance. This chapter attempts to inform about the importance of property rights and how such may be able to alter relationality, social agency, and the various institutional forms of territorialization.
