Down and Out in Atlantic City

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide a sociological life history of a man the author calls George. George lived on Atlantic City’s streets between 1995 and 2009. Instead of accessing available social services, George stayed outside year-round, even during the cold winter months. He obtained small amounts of money by begging for spare change and slept in alleyways, casino bus terminals, underneath the Boardwalk, and behind garbage dumpsters until his death. George’s story reveals how someone who likely would have been committed during the era depicted in Goffman’s Asylums (1961) had viable alternatives to confinement within an institution. This article has two aims. First, it adds empirical depth to literature on working-age, unhoused men disconnected from formal labor markets and social service systems. A second, more analytical aim is to extend our thinking about Goffman’s concept of moral career.

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The Role of Discretion in the Legal and Social Service Systems

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438948106200701 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 62 (7) ◽

pp. 387-397 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Gaskins

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Services ◽

Social Service ◽

Due Process ◽

Judicial System ◽

Service Systems

New legislation regulating social services is based on judicial models of fairness and due process. These models are, however, inadequate because they are founded on a misleading analogy between discretion in the judicial system—where cure may be procedural—and the more complex discretion found in social work.

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Organizational and financial model of accompanied residence

Medical and Social Expert Evaluation and Rehabilitation ◽

10.17816/mser48948 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 32-39

Author(s):

Lyudmila A. Kozhushko ◽

Oksana N. Vladimirova ◽

Natalia P. Lemke ◽

Margarita A. Urmancheeva ◽

Vladimir Yu. Soldatov

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Social Services ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Social Service ◽

Service Providers ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Disabled People ◽

Financial Model ◽

Working Age ◽

The Russian Federation

The relevance of the development of developing experience and methodological support of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. To organize activities to provide activities aimed at the development of the direction, the experience of St. Petersburg, as a subject of the leader in the Russian Federation in the development of technologies for accompanied accommodation, was studied and analyzed. The study was conducted on the basis of the results of the annual monitoring study of materials submitted by the executive authorities of 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the organization of technologies for accompanied accommodation.As a result of the study, the main activities in the development of this direction in St. Petersburg were identified: expanding the regional list of social services provided by social service providers; assigning disabled people of working age with intellectual disabilities to a separate social group; developing recommended individual social service programs, including: for disabled people of working age with intellectual disabilities when living in social apartments, development of industry-specific technological regulations for the provision of measures to support disabled people, creation of equal opportunities to enter the social services market for both state and non-state social service organizations, implementation of infrastructure measures, identification of financial sources, etc. The use by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation of recommendations on reforming the regional regulatory legal framework and the implementation of key events will allow introducing the best practices of St. Petersburg in organizing various forms of accompanied residence.

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LEGAL REGULATION OF HOSPITAL-SUBSTITUTING ASPECTS OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED CITIZENS AT HOME

Успехи геронтологии ◽

10.34922/ae.2021.34.5.018 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 791-796

Author(s):

Т.С. Чернякина ◽

В.П. Шестаков ◽

Р.К. Кантемирова ◽

А.А. Свинцов ◽

В.И. Радуто ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Social Services ◽

Social Service ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Disabled People ◽

Working Age ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Stationary Form ◽

At Home

В статье представлены сведения о значительной численности лиц старше трудоспособного возраста, инвалидов и получателей социальных услуг в стационарной форме и о неблагоприятном прогнозе численности лиц старше 65 лет на 2024 и 2030 гг. в РФ. Это определяет необходимость правового регулирования вопросов их жизнеустройства с соблюдением прав человека и инвалидов на ведение самостоятельного образа жизни. Авторами представлен анализ федеральной и региональной правовой базы в части определения обстоятельств, при которых гражданин признается нуждающимся в социальном обслуживании, участия органов местного самоуправления и подведомственных организаций в оказании социальных услуг, осуществления социального сопровождения, внедрения стационарзамещающих технологий социального обслуживания. В статье рассматриваются тенденции и пути совершенствования правового регулирования социального обслуживания граждан пожилого возраста и инвалидов на дому в ракурсе внедрения стационарзамещающих элементов. The article presents information about a significant number of people older than working age, disabled people and recipients of social services in stationary form and about the unfavorable forecast of the number of people older than 65 years for 2024 and 2030 in the Russian Federation, which determines the need for legal regulation of their lifestyle issues with respect for human rights to lead an independent lifestyle. The authors present an analysis of the federal and regional legal framework in terms of determining the circumstances under which a citizen is recognized as needing social services, the participation of local self-government bodies and subordinate organizations in the provision of social services, the implementation of social support, the introduction of hospital-substituting social service technologies. The article discusses the trends and ways to improve the legal regulation of social services for elderly and disabled citizens at home from the perspective of the introduction of hospital-substituting elements.

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Serving seafarers in the Boston Harbor: Local adaptation to global economic change, 1820–2015

International Journal of Maritime History ◽

10.1177/0843871418765710 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 252-265

Author(s):

Wendy Cadge ◽

Michael Skaggs

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Services ◽

Social Service ◽

The United States ◽

Service Organizations ◽

Boston Harbor ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Social Service Organizations ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

Religious people and organizations have provided services to seafarers in the port of Boston for nearly 200 years. While Boston’s history and present circumstances are specific, the port’s services to seafarers are broadly representative of the history of such provision in ports across the United States. We show how local and global economic changes shaped who worked in the port of Boston. Protestant individuals and organizations provided services to these workers, although the motivation behind the services and their content changed. The overt evangelism of the first generations diminished as mission societies transitioned into religiously-motivated social service organizations. Comprehensive social services and lodging were replaced by services provided on board vessels during increasingly quick turnarounds. While today’s port chaplains describe their work in much different terms than those of generations past, they continue a tradition of Protestant-supported care that has been evident in the port for the past two centuries.

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Diaspora and Identity

10.21313/hawaii/9780824867935.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mieko Nishida

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Labor Migrations ◽

Japanese Immigrants ◽

Japanese Brazilians ◽

Fixed Set ◽

History Of ◽

Brazilian Identity ◽

Japanese Immigration ◽

Push And Pull

Much has been published on the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil, Japanese Brazilians in Brazil, and Japanese Brazilians’ “return” labor migrations to Japan (known as dekassegui). Yet none has gone beyond and above the essentialized categories of “the Japanese” in Brazil and “Brazilians” in Japan. This book demonstrates that Japanese Brazilian identity has never been a static, fixed set of traits that can be counted and inventoried. Rather it is about being and becoming, a process of identity in motion responding to the push-and-pull between being positioned and positioning in a historically changing world. The book is based on the author’s painstaking research in Brazil and Japan between 1997 and 2013, involving extensive life history interviews (and follow-ups) with 116 Japanese Brazilians of several generations and diverse social backgrounds, in combination with substantial archival research and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. This book examines Japanese immigrants and their descendants’ historically shifting sense of identity that comes from their engagement or experience of historical changes in socioeconomic and political structure. Each chapter illustrates how Japanese Brazilian identity is in formation, across generation, across gender, across class, across race, and in the movement of people between nations.

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SOCIAL SERVICES AS A SOCIAL INVESTMENT ON THE EXAMPLE OF A NEW INSTITUUTION OF SOCIAL CENTERS IN POLAND, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SOCIAL WORKERS

SOCIETY INTEGRATION EDUCATION Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ◽

10.17770/sie2021vol6.6344 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 65-78

Author(s):

Mirosław Grewiński ◽

Marek Kawa

Keyword(s):

Labor Markets ◽

Social Workers ◽

Social Services ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Social Service ◽

Research Problem ◽

Social Investment ◽

Main Research ◽

The Social ◽

The Family

The aim of the article is to present the empirical research conducted among Polish social workers in November of 2020 on the newly created institution named in Polish - - Centrum Usług Społecznych, CUS (Social Service Centers). The article also presents the theoretical framework, but mostly the authors focus on presenting empirical research of 79 social welfare centers in Poland. The main research problem proposed within the article was how social workers perceive the creation of a new institution in municipalities - social service centers and what deficits and strengths they see in the field of creating new social services, that meet new challenges such as aging of society, transformations of labor markets and changes within the family, ecological threats and new pandemics.

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