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Yes, you can access Social Prevention and the Social Sciences by Günter Albrecht, Hans-Uwe Otto, Günter Albrecht,Hans-Uwe Otto in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Social Sciences

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Social Sciences

Preface
Contents
Contributors
Introduction - Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies
Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies
Part I - Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics
Decline of Community? - Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societie
Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method
Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible?
Part II - Theoretical Controversies
Introduction: Theoretical Controversies
Section I - Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action
Preventive Planning - A Strategy With Loss of Purpose
Basic Problems of Prevention
Verwendungsforschung - Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work
Section II - Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy
Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work
Cooptation and Counterculture - The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed
Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention
Prevention Through Institutional Change? - The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services
Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? - On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work
Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts
Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk
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
Introduction: Evaluation Strategies
Section I - Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research
Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation
An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review
Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family - Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopathology
Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies
Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research
Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry
Section II - The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields
Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention
Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction
Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform
Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes
Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts
Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs
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
Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime
Incarceration and Recidivism
School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment
Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability - Findings From a Panel Study
Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data - New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research
The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes - The Example of Life-Course Analysis
Author Index
Subject Index

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