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The culturagram has been seen as an essential tool in helping social workers work more effectively with families from many different cultures. Not only does it help the social worker achieve greater understanding of the culture of a family, it can also point the way toward future treatment .
Stuff You Should Know is a free podcast and video series published by HowStuffWorks and hosted by Josh Clark and Charles W. "Chuck" Bryant, both writers at HowStuffWorks. The podcast educates listeners on a wide variety of topics, often using popular culture as a reference giving the podcast comedic value.
Protest cycles (also known as cycles of contention or waves of collective action) refers to the cyclical rise and fall in the social movement activity. Sidney Tarrow (1998) defines them as "a phase of heightened conflict across the social system", with "intensified interactions between challengers and authorities which can end in reform, repression and sometimes revolution".
Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism , which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally repeat themselves in cycles.
The transtheoretical model is also known by the abbreviation "TTM" [2] and sometimes by the term "stages of change", [3] although this latter term is a synecdoche since the stages of change are only one part of the model along with processes of change, levels of change, etc. [1] [4] Several self-help books—Changing for Good (1994), [5 ...
The Commons Social Change Library is an online education library that offers resources about activism, campaigning and organising. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The library is based in Australia . The founder and director of the library is Holly Hammond, an activist educator.
Jack Rothman (born 1927) is an American sociologist and social worker.He is best known for his work in community organizing within the field of social work.He has authored some 25 books and monographs and lectured extensively on social problems and social change.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is a peer-reviewed book series that covers sociological research on social conflict, social movements, collective behavior, and social change. The journal also publishes reviews of books on these topics. It was established in 1977 and is published by Emerald Group Publishing.