Social Prevention and the Social Sciences : : Theoretical Controversies, Research Problems, and Evaluation Strategies / / ed. by Günter Albrecht, Hans-Uwe Otto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Günter,; Albrecht, Hans-Jörg,; Berger, Johannes,; Brumlik, Micha,; Böllert, Karin,; Cook, Thomas D.,; Cooper, Harris,; Dewe, Bernd,; Egg, Rudolf,; Esser, Hartmut,; Flösser, Gaby,; Galaway, Burt,; Gildemeister, Regine,; Gottfredson, Michael,; Gottlieb, Benjamin H.,; Hedges, Larry V.,; Hermann, Dieter,; Hess, Remi,; Hetzel, K.,; Hirschi, Travis,; Huinink, Johannes,; Häußler-Sczepan, Monika,; Hüllemann, K.-D.,; Japp, Klaus Peter,; Josef, Norma C.,; Junger-Tas, Josine,; Kinkel, R. John,; Lösel, Friedrich,; Mager, A.,; Matt, Georg E.,; Nestmann, Frank,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Reuband, Karl-Heinz,; Roleff, K.,; Schmerl, Christiane,; Stinker, Heinz,; Strohmeier, Klaus Peter,; Sunesson, Sune,; Treumann, Klaus,; Wittmann, Werner W.,; Yogi, M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Albrecht, Günter,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter : Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt der Universität Bielefeld ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (638 p.)

Table of Contents

I-XII -- Introduction -- 1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies -- Part I Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics -- 2. Decline of Community? — Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societies -- 3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method -- 4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? -- Part II Theoretical Controversies -- 5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies -- Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action -- 6. Preventive Planning — A Strategy With Loss of Purpose -- 7. Basic Problems of Prevention -- 8. Verwendungsforschung — Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work -- Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy -- 9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work -- 10. Cooptation and Counterculture — The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed -- 11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention -- 12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? — The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services -- 13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? — On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work -- 14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts -- 15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk -- 16. The Lady Is Not for Burning — The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support -- Part III Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention -- 17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies -- Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research -- 18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation -- 19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review -- 20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family — Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog -- 21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies -- 22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research -- 23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry -- Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields -- 24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention -- 25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction -- 26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform -- 27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes -- 28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts -- 29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs -- 30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research -- Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research -- 31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime -- 32. Incarceration and Recidivism -- 33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment -- 34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability — Findings From a Panel Study -- 35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data — New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research -- 36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes — The Example of Life-Course Analysis -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- 639-640