scholarly journals Ethics-Breaking Crimes: A Social Field Study in Baghdad City

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Haneen Hassain Abd allah ◽  
Adnan Yasin Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Value System ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Social Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Child Rape

Crime has become a phenomenon associated with human socialization.  Wherever human groups are found, a crime, which differs from one society to another, is found. It is one of the most dangerous social issues that undermines the solidarity of a given society. This is because it establishes a takeoff from community's norms, values, customs and traditions, and thus turns into a danger to the lives of people, groups and society that threatens its strength and security. The paper focuses on the crimes that violate the social law, like child rape, incest and electronic extortion, which are increasing in size, increasing as a result their repercussions on the human society. The study seeks several objectives, including: examining the nature and dimensions of crimes that violate the values and system of social control and their repercussions. It also investigates the reasons that led to the spread of these crimes breaching accordingly the social law and the value system. This study is a descriptive and analytical one which relied on the social survey using a sampling method. The sample of the study was 150  intentionally selected inmates deposited in some prisons of the Iraqi Correctional Department of perpetrators of child rape, incest, electronic extortion. Besides, 50 social workers and researchers were intentionally selected, too. The data was processed statistically, using (SPSS) program. Moreover, observation, interview tools were used to record information. Results have shown that most of the perpetrators of social transgression crimes, (61.3%), are of lowest levels (illiterate, read and write, primary). Further, the majority of the sample members are males, (127) with a percentage of (84.7%). Finally, it has been found that most sample members (58.0%) came from poor class and sufferred from conditions of weakness.

scholarly journals Consequences of Gossiping on Women Empowerment

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Shumaila Umer ◽  
Zaheruddin Othman ◽  
Kalthum Bt Haji Hassan ◽  
Rahila Umer ◽  
Habib Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractGossip is prevalent and is widespread in human society. Gossip has been denigrated as ‘idle talk’, mostly among women based on ‘trifling or groundless rumour’. The nature and intensity of gossiping victimise women in society. Consequently, women bear serious threat to their well standardized lives. The study aims to understand the women’s experiences with gossiping as a barrier to empowerment. This is a qualitative study with inductive approach. Men and Women are selected as a informants for this study. The data were congregated through in-depth interviews. The results indicate that gossiping or fear of being gossiped is a strong social control in the social setup of Balochistan. This prevents women from being empowered. This paper is intended to be a contribution to exploiting the ideas of women about gossiping as an essential social control or barrier for empowering women.

Moving Beyond Poverty: Effects of Low-Wage Work on Individual, Social, and Family Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shook ◽  
Sara Goodkind ◽  
Rafael J. Engel ◽  
Sandra Wexler ◽  
Kess L. Ballentine
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Families ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Low Wage Work

Social work has long been committed to eliminating poverty, which is at the root of many of the social issues and challenges we address. Over 40% of the U.S. workforce makes less than $15/hour, and the accumulating evidence suggests this is not enough to meet basic needs. In this introduction to a special issue about low-wage work, we describe what is known regarding the experiences and well-being of low-wage workers, as well as promising policy and practice ideas to better support working families. We provide an overview of the included articles and conclude with encouragement for social workers to move beyond a narrow focus on poverty and more broadly consider the struggles and well-being of low-wage workers and their families.

Social Problems

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra K. Danziger ◽  
Karen M. Staller
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The Social

Societies greatly vary in how social ills or conditions are framed and addressed. What is socially problematic and why specific societal responses are developed depends on competing social values in social, political, and historic context. Social constructionists examine how some social behaviors and conditions come to be publicly viewed as social problems and how these views shape policy and practice. Recent studies document two contemporary trends—the medicalizing and criminalizing of behavior for labeling problems and subjecting them to institutions of social control. Analyses of the social problems process (Best, 2013; Staller, 2009) allow social workers to consider how power, politics, fears, prejudices, and values “create” what is problematic about a variety of social conditions.

The Powers and Perils of Societal Advertising

2020 ◽  
pp. 027614672097826
Author(s):  
Christos Livas
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Value System ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
Effective Contribution

Despite the lack of consensus in existing literature regarding the societal functions of advertising, brands have been increasingly incorporating aspects of their stance on key social issues and/or contributions to societal wellbeing, into advertising messages. However, notable failures of contemporary societal advertising campaigns indicate that their effectiveness in achieving marketing objectives and advancing social causes remains ambiguous. To appraise the commercial and social consequences of societal advertising, the present research proceeds to examine its interrelationship with the social value system and conceptual differences with similar concepts. Although advertising is able to reflect and also reinforce a subset of existing social values, effective contribution to positive social change is likely to necessitate synergies between elements of the entire marketing process. Overall, given its risks and limitations, there is not sufficient evidence to posit that the practice of societal advertising is always for the best interest of business and society.

scholarly journals How Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues Came to Be

Numeracy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Quantitative Reasoning ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oxford University Press

Lewis, Michael Anthony. 2019. Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues (New York: Oxford University Press) 224 pp. ISBN 978-0190467135. This essay introduces Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues by Michael Anthony Lewis. Inspired by the seminal work of Bennett and Briggs, Lewis shares how he came to write a math book for social workers to meet new demands as the field has developed to include more quantitative concepts. The result is a book that may be of interest to many in the quantitative reasoning movement in the social sciences and beyond.

scholarly journals Methods of reducing the obstacles facing families of Quadriplegia patients from the viewpoint of families and social workers: أساليب الحد من المعوقات التي تواجه أسر ذوي الشلل الرباعي من وجهة نظر الأسر والأخصائيين الاجتماعيين

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed Abdullah Alsaloom
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Support Methods ◽  
Professional Intervention

The study aimed to know the methods of reducing the obstacles facing the families of quadriplegic patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from their point of view and from the point of view of social workers. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the Social Survey Methodology, and the study sample consisted of (120) of the families of quadriplegic patients, in addition to (70) social workers, and the researcher used the questionnaire as a study tool. The results of the study showed that the families of those with quadriplegia agree to methods of reducing obstacles that confront them with an average of (4.08) and that the most important of these methods are as follows: Increasing the social worker’s awareness of the professional intervention methods during the crisis, the need for the social worker to understand the tasks that he must perform towards the families of quadriplegic patients, educating the families of the importance of the social worker’s intervention and revealing the problems they face, especially social and economic, providing training courses for the specialist on support methods for families of quadriplegia patients. The results of the study also showed the approval of the social workers on methods to reduce the obstacles facing families of quadriplegia patients with an average of (4.04), and the most important of these methods are the following: Increased awareness of the social worker with methods of professional intervention during the crisis, the need for the social worker to understand the tasks that he must perform towards the families of quadriplegic patients, Sensitizing families on the importance of social worker intervention and revealing problems they face, especially social and economic, providing training courses for the specialist on methods of support for families of quadriplegia patients.

scholarly journals Female Leadership Families and Their Social Problems in the War Affected Area of Puthukkudiyiruppu Divisional Secretariat Division in Mullaitivu District of Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ms. N. Thusiyanthy ◽  
Dr. K. Rajendram
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

The main objectives of the study are to study the social issues faced in female leadership families and find out the causes for the formation of female-led families. Primary and secondary data have been utilized in this study. To collect primary data 205 households had selected by way of the stratified random sampling method. Questionnaires, key informants interview, and focus group discussion have been adopted. Several social issues have been identified, which was in the hold of the battle for three decades. After the war, to study the status of basic needs such as food, accommodation, education, health, social protection, transport, cultural issues, employment, and income have been reviewed. Death of husband, living apart, disappearance, and being unmarried and living alone is being the main causes of the formation of female-led families. Their livelihood and life could be improved by creating employment opportunities, strengthening and empowering the economy, formation of leadership, provision of psychosocial reinforcement, encouraging remarriage, and maintenance of elderly family-led females, ensuring safety among female-led families.

scholarly journals Social work education in the light of the evaluation of the "Axiological Walk in Kobierzyn"

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Karolina Rożniatowska ◽  
Hubert Kaszyński ◽  
Olga Maciejewska
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
The Times ◽  
Work Education

In the education of social workers, it is particularly important to seek working methods that provide to experience values which define the foundations of professional action. The authors of the article approve the personalistic philosophy as a theoretical basis of educational work, the practice of which is based on the cooperation of academic staff and students, striving for partnership, open dialogue and experiencing personal subjectivity. Nevertheless, the essence of the issue is to search for the content of education, which refers not only to contemporary social issues, but also to their historical conditions and correlates. The context for the article is a reflection on the history of 20th century eugenics, with particular emphasis on the extermination of nearly a quarter of a million people with mental illness and disabilities performed by the German Nazi. It is difficult, without studying the times in which the history derailed, to fully understand the social responsibility of people who are particularly vulnerable and exposed to social non-recognition and damage. The curriculum of social workers’ education at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow has included the space of the Clinical Hospital in Krakow's Kobierzyn, where, in cooperation with the Institute of Therapy and Social Education - the Association, an educational project under the name of Axiological Walk in Kobierzyn is being implemented. The article is based on reflection on axiological education in the light of evaluation of the aforementioned project.

The National Uniform

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-157
Author(s):  
Geoff Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Erosion ◽  
A Site

Virtually all Qataris wear the national uniform in their day-to-day lives: white robes and head scarves for men, and black cloaks and head scarves for women. These signifiers of nationality are “passports” in a nation where citizens are positioned atop the social hierarchy. Exploring these issues vis-à-vis the hijab, this chapter traces the garments’ history in the Gulf, including their transformation from functional to fashionable attire. These and other changes generate persistent grumbles—and social control measures—from other Qataris. Thus, the hijab serves as a site of resistance, conformity, and negotiation of social issues, including responses to modernity. To assuage concerns about cultural erosion and maintain a sense of personal style, Qatari women modify, adjust, reimagine, and remove their hijabs to suit changing circumstances. These hijab micropractices are at times so infinitesimal that they are easy to overlook. Yet they are significant because they enable women to align the elements of modern traditionalism into a socially acceptable identity that maximizes autonomy. Though the hijab is typically viewed through a lens of constraint, this chapter demonstrates the hijab’s flexibility and the agency with which Muslim women engage in adornment practices. Hijab micropractices, however, may inadvertently uphold a dynastic power structure that does little to advance women.

scholarly journals VALUE-MOTIVATIONAL SPHERE OF THE DEVIANT PEOPLE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY OF EDUCATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (388) ◽  
pp. 303-312
Author(s):  
Tyumaseva Z.I., ◽  
◽  
Valeeva G.V., ◽  
Nasyrova E.F., ◽  
Krasnoshchechenko I.P., ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Value System ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Relationships ◽  
National Programs

The objective of this article is to analyze the problems of deviant behavior in the context of the processes. The method of research is a theoretical analysis of the problem of deviant behavior in the context of the processes and results of deformations of the value system of an individual and the community. Results. Deviations in human behavior in different ages are manifested in a variety of forms, such as aggression and autoaggression, alcoholism and drug addiction, offenses and crimes, and new forms of the addiction. The problem of the (re/trans) formation of a system of values is touched upon in the multitude of works by modern and classic scientists, pedagogues, social workers, and other specialists. Production-technological, socio-psychological and politico-economic changes in worlds have led to the destruction and desacralization of the customary system of values, such as moral norms, their representation in interaction with fatherland, family and friendship, professional and work communication. Modern societies began to exist in the spirit of principles and rules of life, that values are formed spontaneously and exists in individual forms. This makes these norms very vulnerable to deviations and crushes the very understanding of deviations. Conclusions. In working with deviations in the framework of academic psychological counseling and psychotherapy of educational disorders (didactogeny), it is important to understand that value deformations are not only a person and their relationships, but also the social context, including state and national programs and deformations. Therefore, work with violations is related to helping a person to remain human or to help restore human status in the foot despite the circumstances, anomie, and desacralization of macro-social crises and injuries.

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