Social Prevention and the Social Sciences : : Theoretical Controversies, Research Problems, and Evaluation Strategies / / ed. by Günter Albrecht, Hans-Uwe Otto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Günter,; Albrecht, Hans-Jörg,; Berger, Johannes,; Brumlik, Micha,; Böllert, Karin,; Cook, Thomas D.,; Cooper, Harris,; Dewe, Bernd,; Egg, Rudolf,; Esser, Hartmut,; Flösser, Gaby,; Galaway, Burt,; Gildemeister, Regine,; Gottfredson, Michael,; Gottlieb, Benjamin H.,; Hedges, Larry V.,; Hermann, Dieter,; Hess, Remi,; Hetzel, K.,; Hirschi, Travis,; Huinink, Johannes,; Häußler-Sczepan, Monika,; Hüllemann, K.-D.,; Japp, Klaus Peter,; Josef, Norma C.,; Junger-Tas, Josine,; Kinkel, R. John,; Lösel, Friedrich,; Mager, A.,; Matt, Georg E.,; Nestmann, Frank,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Reuband, Karl-Heinz,; Roleff, K.,; Schmerl, Christiane,; Stinker, Heinz,; Strohmeier, Klaus Peter,; Sunesson, Sune,; Treumann, Klaus,; Wittmann, Werner W.,; Yogi, M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Albrecht, Günter,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter : Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt der Universität Bielefeld ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (638 p.)
• Other title: I-XII --; Introduction --; 1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies --; 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 --; 3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method --; 4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? --; Part II Theoretical Controversies --; 5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies --; Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action --; 6. Preventive Planning — A Strategy With Loss of Purpose --; 7. Basic Problems of Prevention --; 8. Verwendungsforschung — Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work --; Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy --; 9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work --; 10. Cooptation and Counterculture — The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed --; 11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention --; 12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? — The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services --; 13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? — On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work --; 14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts --; 15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk --; 16. 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 --; 17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies --; Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research --; 18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation --; 19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review --; 20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family — Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog --; 21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies --; 22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research --; 23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry --; Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields --; 24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention --; 25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction --; 26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform --; 27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes --; 28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts --; 29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs --; 30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research --; Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research --; 31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime --; 32. Incarceration and Recidivism --; 33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment --; 34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability — Findings From a Panel Study --; 35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data — New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research --; 36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes — The Example of Life-Course Analysis --; Author Index --; Subject Index --; 639-640
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110864328; 9783110637939
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110864328
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Günter Albrecht, Hans-Uwe Otto.