Article: Patricia Kennett (Ed.), A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy.(Book Review)

Article: Comparative social administration. (reprint, ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2008 ;     493 words ...020230938X Comparative social administration. (reprint, 1968) Rodgers, Barbara N. et ... and her co-authors then compare the countries' practices in social policy and social planning, social security, social work and administrative ...

Article: Comparative Social Research, Volume 18, Family ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  January 1, 2001 ;     639 words ...Arnlaug Leira, ed, Comparative Social Research, Volume 18, Family Change: Practice, Policies ... as poverty and delinquent behaviours but it is noted that social policy decisions by the state can mediate the impacts of a decline ...

Dictionary definition: social policy
A Dictionary of Sociology;      700+ words ... ... called social administration approach to social policy dominant in the 1950s and 1960s has ... again shaped discussions of welfare and social policy. There is also a greater focus on comparative social policy (with the insularity of British writers ...

Article: Arthur Gould, Developments in Swedish Social ...
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... decades. When social policy scholars first ... systematically in comparative social welfare inquiry ... remained central to comparative social welfare research ... insights into the way comparative social welfare inquiry ...

Article: Comparative social research: family change: ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  December 1, 2000 ;     587 words ...Arnlaug Leira, ed, Comparative Social Research, Volume 18, Family Change: Practice, Policies ... as poverty and delinquent behaviours but it is noted that social policy decisions by the state can mediate the impacts of a decline ...

The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Munck, Thomas The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794 New York: Oxford University Press 249 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.95 paper ISBN 0-340-66326-X ...

Article: Do some interventions work better than others? A review of ...
Social Work Research;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Knowledge of which interventions are more efficacious than others for given problems is central to evidence-based practice. Attempts to build this knowledge have been confined largely to reviews and meta-analyses of experiments comparing methods of psychotherapy. This literature has suggested that