Demerath / Larsen / Schuessler Social Policy and Sociology

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7406-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Web PDF

Social Policy and Sociology explores the relationship between social policy and sociology and covers topics such as social inequities and individual stress in the family cycle. America's youth and their problems are also given attention, along with the relationship between graduate training and federal funding. Comprised of 24 chapters, this book begins with an assessment of the proper relationship between sociology and public policy, and whether sociologists should become actively engaged in social engineering. Methods of training graduate students for doing policy research are also discussed. Subsequent chapters explore community planning and poverty; policy implications of race relations; formal models as a guide to social policy; and the interrelationships between governmental policy, social structure, and public values. Social problems such as alcoholism and drug addiction are also considered, together with the changing relationship between government support and graduate training. Finally, the what and why of policy research in sociology are examined, and possible changes in graduate training and professional practice in sociology are evaluated. This monograph will be of interest to sociologists as well as social and public policymakers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demerath, N. J.

Larsen, Otto

Schuessler, Karl F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Social Policy and Sociology;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;List of Contributors;10
6;Preface;14
7;Acknowledgments;16
8;Chapter 1. Prologue;18
9;OPENING REMARKS;18
10;HISTORY OF CARMEL;19
11;CONFERENCE PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION;20
12;OVERVIEW OF PAPERS AND COMMENTARIES;22
13;CONCLUDING REMARKS;26
14;PART 1: ASSESSMENT OF POLICY RESEARCH;28
14.1;Section A. Social Inequities and Their Effects;30
14.1.1;Chapter 2. Policy Shibblity-Testing of Research: Are the Poor Always with Us When We Make Sociology?;32
14.1.1.1;INTRODUCTION;32
14.1.1.2;AN OVERVIEW OF DUNCAN'S ARTICLE;33
14.1.1.3;POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF DUNCAN'S ARTICLE;38
14.1.1.4;IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH TRAINING;39
14.1.1.5;REFERENCES;41
14.1.2;Chapter 3. Ideological Filters and Bureaucratic Responses in Interpreting Research: Community Planning and Poverty;42
14.1.2.1;EMPIRICAL INDICATORS AND THEORETICAL VARIABLES;44
14.1.2.2;TYPICAL POLICY RESPONSES TO "PROBLEMS";48
14.1.2.3;IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY-RELEVANT RESEARCH TRAINING;50
14.1.2.4;REFERENCES;52
14.1.3;Chapter 4. Race Relations: Some Policy Implications, Proximate and Remote, of a Negative Finding;54
14.1.3.1;REFERENCES;60
14.1.4;Chapter 5. Policy Change and Grassroots Inertia: The Case of Metropolitan Services;62
14.1.4.1;THE HAWLEY-ZIMMER STUDY;63
14.1.4.2;MODIFICATIONS IN GRADUATE TRAINING;69
14.1.4.3;REFERENCES;71
14.1.5;Chapter 6. Formal Models as a Guide to Social Policy: Issues in Population Dynamics;74
14.1.5.1;DYNAMICS OF BIRTH INTERVALS;75
14.1.5.2;ACE AT MARRIAGE;78
14.1.5.3;IMPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE TRAINING;80
14.1.5.4;REFERENCES;82
14.1.6;Chapter 7. Commentaries;84
14.1.6.1;JOHN E. BRANDL;84
14.1.6.2;G. FRANKLIN EDWARDS;89
14.1.6.3;ELTON F. JACKSON;93
14.1.6.4;MAURICE JACKSON;96
14.1.6.5;WILLIAM T. LIU;99
14.1.6.6;ROBERT McGINNIS;106
14.1.6.7;SHELDON STRYKER;110
14.2;Section B. Individual Stress in the Family Cycle;114
14.2.1;Chapter 8. Sociologfjgical Critics versus Institutional Elites in the Politics of Research Application: Examples from Medical Care;116
14.2.1.1;REFERENCES;125
14.2.2;Chapter 9. The Intermingling of Governmental Policy, Social Structure, and Public Values: The Case of the Changing Family;126
14.2.2.1;THE PROBLEMATICS OF FAMILY POLICY;127
14.2.2.2;RESEARCH ON TWO-CAREER FAMILIES;128
14.2.2.3;STRATEGIES FOR HANDLING FAMILY PROBLEMS;130
14.2.2.4;POLICY IMPLICATIONS: THE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE;131
14.2.2.5;POLICY IMPLICATIONS: THE FAMILY;132
14.2.2.6;THE POLICY PROPOSALS AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF FAMILY POLICY;134
14.2.2.7;FAMILY SOCIOLOGISTS AND FAMILY POLICY;135
14.2.2.8;MAKING POLICY A CENTRAL CONCERN;135
14.2.2.9;REFERENCES;138
14.2.3;Chapter 10. Reconceptualizing Social Problems in Light of Scholarly Advances: Problem Drinking and Alcoholism;140
14.2.3.1;SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS;145
14.2.3.2;IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION;150
14.2.3.3;REFERENCES;151
14.2.4;Chapter 11. Policy Enthusiasms for Untested Theories and the Role of Quantitative Evidence: Labeling and Mental Illness;152
14.2.4.1;SOCIETAL REACTION AND PSYCHIATRIC THEORY;153
14.2.4.2;THE EMPIRICAL TEST;154
14.2.4.3;THE METHODOLOGICAL ARGUMENT;157
14.2.4.4;SOCIAL INFLUENCE;160
14.2.4.5;CONCLUSION;164
14.2.4.6;REFERENCES;164
14.2.5;Chapter 12. Applying General Variables to Specific Problems: Aging and the Life Cycle;166
14.2.5.1;REFERENCES;173
14.2.6;Chapter 13. Commentaries;176
14.2.6.1;CHARLES E. BOWERMAN;176
14.2.6.2;JOSEPH ELDER;179
14.2.6.3;WALTER R. GOVE;182
14.2.6.4;AUGUST B. HOLLINGSHEAD;185
14.2.6.5;GUY E. SWANSON;199
14.2.6.6;ROBERT N. WILSON;203
14.3;Section C. American Youth and Their Problems;208
14.3.1;Chapter 14. The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and "Mobilization for Youth";210
14.3.1.1;THE LEGACY;210
14.3.1.2;OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE THEORY;212
14.3.1.3;SUMMARY AND APPRAISAL;220
14.3.1.4;CONCLUSION;224
14.3.1.5;REFERENCES;225
14.3.2;Chapter 15. Inappropriate Theories and Inadequate Methods as Policy Plagues: Self-Reported Delinquency and the Law;228
14.3.2.1;DESIGN OF SELF-REPORTED SURVEYS OF DELINQUENCY;229
14.3.2.2;SUMMARY OF FINDINGS;230
14.3.2.3;IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL POLICY;230
14.3.2.4;METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS;231
14.3.2.5;PROBLEMS OF INFERENCE AND SOCIAL POLICY;233
14.3.2.6;IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING SOCIOLOGISTS;235
14.3.2.7;REFERENCES;237
14.3.3;Chapter 16. Problems of Research in Response to "National Emergencies": Drugs and Addiction;240
14.3.3.1;GENERAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS;242
14.3.3.2;POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR WHOM?;244
14.3.3.3;THE SOCIOLOGICAL PROFESSION AND EMERGENT SOCIAL ISSUES;246
14.3.3.4;RETOOLING FOR 'NATIONAL EMERGENCIES'';247
14.3.3.5;REFERENCES;248
14.3.4;Chapter 17. On the Remarkable Absence of Nonacademic Implications in Academic Research: An Example from Ethnic Studies;250
14.3.4.1;CONCLUSIONS;255
14.3.5;Chapter 18. Sociological Understanding versus Policy Design and Intervention: The Adolescent Crisis;260
14.3.5.1;REFERENCES;266
14.3.6;Chapter 19. Commentaries;268
14.3.6.1;WENDELL BELL;268
14.3.6.2;CHARLES E. BIDWELL;273
14.3.6.3;HERBERT L. COSTNER;277
14.3.6.4;TROY DUSTER;280
14.3.6.5;DAVID R. HEISE;282
14.3.6.6;LAURA NADER;284
14.3.6.7;ALBERT PEPITONE;290
14.3.6.8;HANAN C. SELVIN;296
15;PART II: GRADUATE TRAINING AND FEDERAL FUNDING;300
15.1;Chapter 20. Report on a Survey of Graduate Training;302
15.1.1;REFERENCES;312
15.2;Chapter 21. Remarks on the Changing Relationship between Government Support and Graduate Training;314
15.2.1;THE NIMH SOCIAL SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM;315
15.2.2;THE CURRENT SITUATION;318
15.3;Chapter 22. Research Training from the Perspective of Government Funding;324
15.3.1;HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM;324
15.3.2;CURRENT PROGRAMS;326
15.3.3;NEW PROGRAMS INITIATED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS;329
15.3.4;THE FUTURE?;332
15.3.5;IMPLICATIONS;333
15.3.6;REFERENCES;337
15.4;Chapter 23. Putting Sociologists to Work;338
15.4.1;RESEARCH METHODS;341
15.4.2;THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE;349
15.4.3;REFERENCE;355
15.5;Chapter 24. Epilogue;356
15.5.1;THE WHAT AND WHY OF POLICY RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY;358
15.5.2;POSSIBLE CHANGES IN GRADUATE TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;363
15.5.3;POSTSCRIPT;371
15.5.4;REFERENCES;372
16;Appendix;374
17;Name Index;378