Social Welfare & Social Services

This is an analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. This text uses a case study ...

While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into t...

The history of American gender and sexuality is examined here through a case study of the YMCA, the organization devoted to young men. The social h...

-- The Social Worker

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhood...

The Social Security Act of 1935 must be counted among the most monumental pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Sixty-five years after its...

"Most of us are unaware of child neglect even when we are witnessing it. . . . Neglect is a matter of things undone, of inaction compounded by indi...

"Like the subject about which she writes, Perlman engages the reader immediately, permitting a view into the author's rich and varied experiences, ...

Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or ...

Drawing from their experience as government insiders, George P. Shultz and Kenneth W. Dam show how economic policy is shaped at the highest levels ...

It is often said that the federal government cannot or should not attempt to address America's problems of poverty and inequality—because its burea...

In over sixty years of involvement in social work—as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author—Helen Harris Perlman has become all ...

In over sixty years of involvement in social work—as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author—Helen Harris Perlman has become all ...

The basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many other areas, was determined during the New Deal, but not without conflict among mo...

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhood...

Why have both Great Britain and the United States been unable to create effective training and work programmes for the unemployed? The author conte...