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Developing Social Services, 2002.
Developing social services in an urban environment.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper examines a theoretical attempt to establish public services in an urban environment. It examines transit policies and attitudes to expressways in the 1950s and the current era.
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Social Services for the Elderly, 2005.
A look at the insufficient or lack of social services for the elderly in America.
8,545 words (approx. 34.2 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 180.95
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This report addresses the problem that large portions of the elderly population are not happy with the social services that are available to them, do not know enough about them, or are otherwise blocked by departmental objectives, which have turned a war on poverty to a war on
fraudulent claims, compromising the social service presentation in many areas.
Outline
Definition of Problem/Objectives
Appraisal of Existing Information
Formulation of Hypothesis
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"Social epidemiology would not provide a basis for assuming that poverty is the only risk factor to be considered in the targeting of community health programs, for there are other societal circumstances that foster marginalization: from a holistic outlook, then, "Critical perspectives on emerging infections must ask how large-scale social forces come to have their effects on unequally positioned individuals in increasingly
interconnected populations" (Farmer, 1999). These inequalities may be expanded in a definitional manner to include the recognition that other social groups are also party to marginalized status in terms of age and gender, but overall, social epidemiology recognizes that, at least where the non-elderly are concerned, poverty and minority-group status combine to create the primary factor for promotion marginalization, which, in turn, is responsible for less favorable health outcomes in elderly individuals fitting these social and environmental parameters."
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Child Sexual Abuse and Social Services, 2002.
Looks at the social services' approach to sexual abuse of children.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper explore approaches used by child services and social services' regarding child abuse and sexual abuse. Suggestions for new approaches are included.
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HRM in Social Services, 2002.
A look at the role of human resource management in the social services.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper depicts the role of HRM in a social service organization such as the Red Cross.
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Disabilities and Social Services, 2002.
This paper addresses disabilities and programs related to them, as well as the place of social work in these programs.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper addresses disabilities and programs related to them, as well as the place of social work in these programs. The two programs concentrated on are the Social Services Disability benefits and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Qualification and assessment for these programs is explained in detail.
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Social Services, 2002.
A look at some of the challenges faced by social workers in their work.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses issues facing human services personnel today in terms of how these issues apply to a social worker's job, and how a social worker faces these challenges. An example is included of a situation in which a social worker faced one of the dilemmas discussed and how it was resolved.
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Public Interest Law and Social Services, 1994.
This paper is a sociological analysis of the legal profession in contexts of the Children's Defense Fund, social justice, the underclass and minorities.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 12 sources, $ 63.95
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"This research examines the sociology of the legal profession in the United with respect to public interest law. Conceptually, public interest law tends to be perceived both as the advocacy of a social cause, such as human rights or the welfare of children, and as the extension of legal services to persons otherwise unable to afford such services through public defender programs or the provisions of services pro bono through major law firms. At times, these two conceptions of public interest ... "
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Virginia Department of Social Service, 2002.
This paper discusses the Virginia Department of Social Service (VDSS) policies that deal with diversity, ethics and privacy issues in the work place.
2,505 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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This paper states that the mission of the VDSS is to help people lead safe and productive lives. This paper states that the service and structure of the VDSS is a model organization, which has successfully achieved its goals by its qualified and diverse workforce and by providing service without any discrimination and partiality. The paper discusses its many different programs for many different people.
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"The Executive Order 2 also emphasizes the recruitment of qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, and older Virginians to serve at all levels of organizations. It also protects the privacy of employees in the workplace. In many organizations over fourteen million employees in United States have their privacy been violated in one form or another. Due to this privacy issue the Virginia Commonwealth has also put the strong emphasis on privacy of employees and ethics."
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Social Service for the Disabled, 2003.
An analysis of the support services available to disabled citizens in Florida and Texas today.
2,387 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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In 1994, there were more than 29 million Americans aged 21 to 64 with some type of physical disability, meaning that they reported a substantial impairment in a major life activity (seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, climbing stairs lifting, and carrying), according to the Census Bureau's Survey of income and program participation. Currently, half of the 29 million disabled Americans aged 21 to 64 are working. However, the participation rate is lower, around 25 percent, for those who are severely disabled. Altogether, the disabled account for 14 percent of the employed population. The greatest number of the disabled population in America have impairments that are related to hearing, vision, or back problems (Mergenhagen, 1997). The levels of support services provided in the states of Florida and Texas are examined in this study to determine their availability and adequacy, as well as to project future demands for these services. Study includes two valuable appendices.
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"Statement of the Problem: In 1994, there were more than 29 million Americans aged 21 to 64 with some type of physical disability, meaning that they reported a substantial impairment in a major life activity (seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, climbing stairs, and lifting and carrying), according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation. While almost half of the disabled people in America are employed to some extent, the population in the U.S. continues to age and experts caution that the social supports structures currently in place will not be adequate to address the needs of this growing segment of the population."
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EMSDS (Emergency Medical Services Daycare Service), 2004.
This paper is a business plan for EMSDS, Emergency Medical Daycare Services, a part-time daycare program that meets the challenging scheduling needs of firefighters and EMS professionals with similar scheduling limitations.
3,695 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 102.95
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This paper explains that the firefighter daycare center will provide a staff of qualified professionals, all of whom are certified with Early Childhood Education (ECE) diplomas, and, above all else, flexible and affordable. The author points out that the daycare will aspire to attract clientele, gain corporate and community sponsorship in an effort to reduce costs, and provide adequate services and seek out volunteers to help manage operating costs. The paper concludes that, in the event that EMSDS does not find adequate resources with which to conduct business in its first year, it will postpone arrangements to open approximately one year later. Charts.
Table of Contents
Introduction/Executive Summary
Vision
Situational Analysis
Market Demographics
Market Summary
Market Needs
Market Trends
Market Forecast/Growth
SWOT
Competition
Mission
Market Objectives
Marketing Mix
Pricing
Competition
Selling Methods
Financial Data
Breakeven
Implementation
Contingency
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"The daycare industry is growing. The childcare services industry is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expanding in part due to accommodate the increasingly high demand for quality services. In 1999 the market for childcare services topped out at more than $3.5 billion. The market is expected to surpass $60 billion in revenues in the upcoming years, in part due to the fact that both parents typically are now working in the labor force. ?Child care expenses by households rose 15.7% between 1986 and 1999 alone?. ?Formal daycare service providers in 1999 earned revenues of approximately $1.8 billion, with expenses toping out at approximately $1.7 billion, leaving more than $96 million in profits for daycare providers?. The profit margin is approximately 5.3%."
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Social Self and Socialization, 2005.
This paper discusses our social selves and our socialization into the world we live in.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the combination of our social selves and our socialization into the society of our birth and development. The paper looks at the ideas of how we develop a social self, how society plays a huge role in this process and how these two become interlinked in our personality. The paper concludes that our social selves become a central aspect of how we are.
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"Human beings are born with an ability or nature to become social beings and if the child is raised typically they will develop their social self, or become a part of society in one facet or another. This social self is developed as the child begins to feel emotions and correspond these same emotions to the selves they recognize as their parents or guardians. From these insights, it is important to then consider the impact that this has upon the type of person which we become."
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Socialization and Social Groups, 2002.
This paper analyzes what makes us human by discussing various social organizations.
2,169 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper explains that, although a child?s family is the most influential force in a child?s social development, environmental factors, such as friends, school, church, and other social organizations, also have an effect on socialization. The author describes many types of social organizations, including fraternities and sororities, religious groups, fine arts groups, and sports groups, whose members share similar goals and interests and play a role in the socialization process. The paper states that what makes us human is our ability to pick up societal norms and social cues from people and things that exists outside the boundaries of the immediate family.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Definition of Socialization
Social Organizations
Fraternities and Sororities
Religious Groups
Fine Arts Groups
Sports Groups
Sociological Analysis of What Makes Us Human
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"Religious groups are also important social organizations that aid in the development of socialization process. Social organizations that have a specific religion at the core can include; a church, mosque or temple, or a gospel choir. Membership to these religious groups allows individuals with the same belief systems to come together to worship and form friendships. The purpose of these groups is to strengthen the faith of members. This strengthening may be accomplished through mentorship, guidance and increased knowledge of the standards of the faith. Religious groups also provide individuals with a support system, which aids in the process of socialization."
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Social Systems and Socialization, 2004.
A comparison of the effect of social systems, both home and school, on a person's development, written from a personal perspective.
3,897 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper addresses the social systems that were present when the writer was growing up and considers how they impacted on his socialization. Being born in 1979, these systems mainly represent those in the 1980s and early 1990s. The writer then considers the systems that were present in the generation prior to his own, which also equates to the same generation as his parents. This information is obtained by interviewing a married couple, both born in the early 1950s. These systems represent those in the 1950s and early 1960s. Finally, the writer compares and contrasts the two socialization experiences and considers how these differences in socialization may have resulted in differences between himself and the people of his parent?s generation.
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"An individual becomes the person they are because of their socialization. The social systems a person interacts with, especially as a child, influences both a person?s beliefs and their actions. According to Bronfenbrenner, there are four levels that make up the social system: the micro, the meso, the exo, and the macro. The microsystem is described as ?a pattern of activities, roles, and interpersonal relations experienced by the developing person in a given face-to-face setting? (Bronfenbrenner,1993, p. 15). The main examples of microsystems are family and school. The mesosystem is described saying it ?compromises the linkages and processes taking place between two or more settings containing the developing person? (Bronfenbrenner,1993, p. 22). School is the major example of a mesosystem where school compromises the linkages and processes taking place in the family environment. The exosystem is described as ?the linkages and processes taking place between two or more settings, at least one of which does not contain the developing person but in which events occur that indirectly influence processes within the immediate setting within which the developing person lives? (Bronfenbrenner,1993, p. 22). The major example of this is the parent?s workplace, where decisions made there indirectly impact on the individual?s family environment."
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Social Workers and the Social Construction of Sexuality, 2007.
A look at the attitude of social workers in the UK towards sexuality.
3,025 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 88.95
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This paper explores the attitude in the UK today, of social workers towards sexuality, noting that they are hesitant about even broaching the subject. The author discovers that, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, most of the attention for this subject has been directed at sexual abuse cases of children and vulnerable adolescents.
Outline:
Introduction
Sexuality as social construction
Marginalization
Same-sex couples and child adoption
Sexuality and the aged
Conclusions
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"Within the areas of social work sexuality needs to be debated more openly. But it needs to be done so based on a more sophisticated understanding of sexuality's meaning and power. Before the arrival of Michel Foucault, who as a French philosopher revolutionised our understanding of sexuality, the implications of maintaining attitudes as cited above - both open and hidden - had been scarcely realized. Most of the time people took it on trust, from both popular writers and medical experts, who convincingly based their explanations on a supposedly rigorous scientific footing, that sexuality was in the main a biological construct, with clear demarcations as to what constituted man and woman as well as the purpose of both in the evolutionary scheme of things. (Wilton, 2000, p.163) But more recently, people have come to appreciate how untenable and arbitrary this division could be. This misconception has been expressed by Ann Oakley particularly well."
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Social Learning and Social Control Theories On Crime, 1999.
Defines, analyzes and compares the basic concepts of two approaches to an understanding of the nature and cause of criminal and deviant behavior.
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Why do people perform criminal acts? Is it something in their genes? Something in the hand of fate? Is it something that they learn the way that other people learn to recite the names of the presidents or their parents' trade?
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"Social Learning Theory and Control Theory: A comparison of two models for criminal behavior
Why do people perform criminal acts? Is it something in their genes? Something in the hand of fate? Is it something that they learn the way that other people learn to recite the names of the presidents or their parents' trade?
Many criminologists, along with a high percentage of the sociologists and social psychologists that have studied criminal behavior, have selected this final explanation: People learn to be criminals in the same way that people learn any other kind of voluntary behavior. Scholars who believe this to be the case are adhering to social learning theories - or to related differential association theories - of criminality."
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