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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice more books like this

by Joe M Schriver

This text compares and contrasts both traditional (dominant) and alternative paradigms or worldviews in examining human behavior and the social environment. Professor Schriver's text is innovative in its examination of new paradigms that include diversity, feminism, client empowerment, and other perspectives that are mandated by CSWE. Both ...

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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction more books like this

by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Immanuel Wallerstein

In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary approach to understanding the history and development of the modern world that he pioneered thirty years ago. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology ...

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Family therapy in clinical practice

Family therapy in clinical practice more books like this

by Murray Bowen

When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959, at Menninger

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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Social Systems Theory

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Social Systems Theory more books like this

by Orren Dale, Rebecca Smith, Julia M Norlin

This unique text provides a framework for evaluating various Human Behavior theories and a context for addressing social work practice with varying levels of social systems. This revision places current theories of human behavior in a systems context. It is based upon a generalist practice foundation and includes practice examples that help ...

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Social Systems Approach

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Social Systems Approach more books like this

by Ralph E Anderson

Revised and updated, this fifth edition shows a sensitivity to the diverse constituencies of the human services. It reflects awareness of the role of the varied cultural and ethnic features within the social environment it explores, and of the importance of the lengthened life cycle.

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Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology

Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology more books like this

by Patrick Nolan

"Human Societies" is written for today's students who are confronted by a rapidly changing world. It differs greatly from most texts for the introductory sociology course, being neither an eclectic, encyclopedia-like collection of materials nor a limited survey of contemporary American society. By introducing students to the broad range of human ...

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Aesthetics of change.

Aesthetics of change. more books like this

by Bradford P. Keeney

The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family ...

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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Models, Metaphors, and Maps for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Models, Metaphors, and Maps for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice more books like this

by James A Forte

This first edition theories-based book for human behavior provides students with three key tools for theory-by-theory comprehension: models, metaphors and maps. These tools help students to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their relevance to social work practice.

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The limits of organization

The limits of organization more books like this

by Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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Living Systems more books like this

by James Grier Miller

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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration more books like this

by Robert Axelrod

Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been hailed as a seminal contribution and has been translated into eight languages since its initial publication. "The Complexity of ...

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Marriage and Marital Therapy more books like this

by Thomas J Paolino (Editor), Barbara S McCrady (Editor)

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An Introduction to the World-System Perspective: Second Edition more books like this

by Thomas R Shannon

In this second edition, Thomas Shannon extends his overall assessment of the world-system perspective to include the new theoretical and empirical developments in the field since 1989. Incorporating most leading arguments of world-system theorists, he addresses the fall of the Eastern Bloc as well as such current topics as relations with ...

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Seeing Systems more books like this

by Barry Oshry

This text on human behaviour in organizations aims to help create a better organizational environment. It focuses on the human systems existing in organizations in order to develop a workable framework.

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Social Systems more books like this

by Professor Niklas Luhmann, John Bednarz (Translator), Dirk Baecker (Translator)

A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. In this presentation of a general theory of systems, Niklas Luhmann, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker, sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and ...

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The Social System more books like this

by Talcott Parsons (Preface by)

In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. His The Structure of Social Action (1937), was a pioneer work that has influenced many social scientists. The present work, The Social System, presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work.

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Sociopolitical Ecology: Human Systems and Ecological Fields more books like this

by Frederick L Bates

Sociopolitical Ecology introduces the concept of ecological field' to replace that of ecosystem' and extends the boundaries of self-referential systems to a new, more complex level of analysis. Ecological field refers to an overarching system that contains many self-referential (or autopoietic) systems that interact in a common space, with human ...

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On purposeful systems more books like this

by Russell Lincoln Ackoff, F. E. Emery

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Destiny and Control in Human Systems: Studies in the Interactive Connectedness of Time (Chronotopology) more books like this

by Charles Muses

Reprint of the Boston 1985. 218pp. Charles A. Muses (1919-2000), a figure who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms (including Muss, Musaios, Kyril Demys, Arthur Fontaine, Kenneth Demarest and Carl von Balmadis), was the founder of the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics, ...

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Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems more books like this

by R Keith Sawyer

Can we understand important social issues by studying individual personalities and decisions Or are societies somehow more than the people in them Sociologists have long believed that psychology can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that if we have ...

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Dichotomies of the Mind more books like this

by Walter Lowen, Lawrence H Miike

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Studying Human Societies: A Primer and Guide more books like this

by Patrick Nolan

Authored by Patrick Nolan, the newly revised student supplement study guide for "Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology, Eleventh Edition" prepares your students for class by providing them with general tips, guidelines, and strategies on how to read the text effectively and apply it to the subjects covered in your syllabus. The study ...

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International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations more books like this

by Professor Barry Buzan, Richard Little

This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, ...

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Systems Theory and Family Therapy: A Primer - Second Edition more books like this

by Dr. Dorothy Stroh Becvar, Dr. Raphael J Becvar

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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life more books like this

by John H Miller, Scott E Page

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems - whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies - present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly ...

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