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The contributions in this volume on social care and welfare, disadvanged groups or individuals are intended to be useful in the Eastern European social context to those who experienced or study the communist rule. The transition in Eastern societies is fast-paced, sometimes people oppose it or refuse to be involved. Rules are firm and imposed according to already established models in Western European countries. Society tends to become more ferocious in content but more accessible through media and democratic liberties. Changes are very swift and need greater attention because of the fundamental and structural nature of transformations in an age of transition.

After identifying the implicit assumptions about social influence mechanisms and the social structural bases reflected in the social information processing literature, social network analysis concepts and structural models are used to clearly specify three alternative influence mechanisms. Simple interaction contact, norm enforcing cohesive groups, and the occupation of structurally equivalent positions or roles in an interaction structure are hypothesized as the structures underlying different social influence processes. The relative efficacy of these various structural configurations in predicting similarity of perception of and attitudes about organizational phenomena are then evaluated. While the evidence seems to indicate that the social influence of norm enforcing groups is most robust, multiple mechanisms appear to operate, sometimes simultaneously, for different kinds of perceptions. The limits of social information processing effects are discussed in light of the findings here of no significant effects on some perceptions.

Impact of demographic and socio-economic factors on the changing needs for services for the very old / B. Morginstin -- Role of social security in providing social protection to the very old / B. Schulte -- Role of social security ... in Austria / L. Scherer -- Financing and delivering health care for the elderly / G.J. Schieber, J. Stangl, and C. McKeen Cowles -- Role of social security ... in France / A. Rozenkier -- Current situation and future prospects ... in Czechoslvakia / P. Visek -- Social welfare programmes for the elderly in Argentina / R. Blanco -- Sweden / S.E. Olsson -- Long-term care insurance law and its implications in Homes for the Aged in Israel / E. Yakovitz, N. Shamai no Cash and care in the mixed economy of care for frail elderly people : United Kingdom / S. Baldwin -- Strategies for addressing the needs of the very old / J. Habib, M. Cohen.

La décentralisation se donne en France, dans le discours de ceux qui l'ont décidée et la mettent en oeuvre, comme une opération de sauvetage des solidarités de proximité que trente années d'hyper-centralisme sous la Cinquième République avaient brisées. Afin d'éviter l'éclatement — voire la mort — du social, le politique se « met dans tous ses états » pour réintroduire des enjeux dans un social devenu trop fonctionnel. Force est de constater que cette réponse partielle à la crise du social porte en elle les germes de cette crise et qu'elle en implique la reproduction. Ainsi posé, l'éclatement du social et les différentes crises qui sont à son origine, crise de l'État, crise des savoirs, apparaissent comme des nécessités absolues à un nouveau mode de production du « social » basé sur la négociation et le « marché ».

As social workers are widely called upon to take an active role in influencing social welfare policy, a better understanding of their views on the welfare state is crucial. This study examines the attitudes of 422 Israeli social workers from diverse social welfare agencies regarding social welfare policy. The framework for understanding these attitudes includes the notions of professionalisation processes, social work values, and the class position of social workers. The study's findings indicate that support for the welfare state is quite moderate and these reflect more the class affiliation of social workers than their professional values and the professionalisation process.

"Adopted at Pittsburgh, May 29-30, 1937"--p. 6. ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; In original paper wrappers.

La ola de movilización mundial iniciada a comienzos de la presente década, que registra episodios de contienda política en diferentes puntos del planeta, ha provocado un renovado interés de las Ciencias Sociales por el fenómeno de los movimientos sociales, la contienda política y la acción colectiva. El Trabajo Social no es ajeno a esta vigorosa corriente de estudios sobre el fenómeno de la movilización ciudadana. Con este artículo pretendemos, por un lado, reflexionar acerca los movimientos sociales desde la mirada del Trabajo Social, y por otro, explorar en la producción científica que venimos haciendo las/os trabajadoras/es sociales. Para ello hemos realizado un estudio exploratorio en el que hemos indagado en la difusión de las investigaciones sobre movimientos sociales en las revistas científicas de Trabajo Social de cuatro países iberoamericanos: Argentina, España, México y Perú. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto no sólo el creciente interés por el fenómeno de estudio sino también los enfoques teóricos, o categorías de análisis, y las filiaciones institucionales de las publicaciones. ; The wave of global mobilization initiated at the beginning of current decade, in which episodes of political struggle have been recorded in different parts of the world, has provoked a renewed interest of the Social Sciences for the phenomenon of social movements and collective action. Social Work is not alien to this vigorous stream of studies on the phenomenon of citizen mobilization. With this article we intend, on the one hand, to reflect on social movements from the perspective of Social Work, and on the other, to explore in the scientific production that social workers have been doing on this matter. For this purpose we have carried out an exploratory study in which we have investigated the dissemination of research on social movements in the scientific journals of Social Work from four Ibero-American countries: Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Peru. The results show the growing interest in the phenomenon studied as well as the theoretical approaches, or analytical categories, and the institutional affiliations of the scientific publications.

The wave of global mobilization initiated at the beginning of current decade, in which episodes of political struggle have been recorded in different parts of the world, has provoked a renewed interest of the Social Sciences for the phenomenon of social movements and collective action. Social Work is not alien to this vigorous stream of studies on the phenomenon of citizen mobilization. With this article we intend, on the one hand, to reflect on social movements from the perspective of Social Work, and on the other, to explore in the scientific production that social workers have been doing on this matter. For this purpose we have carried out an exploratory study in which we have investigated the dissemination of research on social movements in the scientific journals of Social Work from four Ibero-American countries: Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Peru. The results show the growing interest in the phenomenon studied as well as the theoretical approaches, or analytical categories, and the institutional affiliations of the scientific publications. ; La ola de movilización mundial iniciada a comienzos de la presente década, que registra episodios de contienda política en diferentes puntos del planeta, ha provocado un renovado interés de las Ciencias Sociales por el fenómeno de los movimientos sociales, la contienda política y la acción colectiva. El Trabajo Social no es ajeno a esta vigorosa corriente de estudios sobre el fenómeno de la movilización ciudadana. Con este artículo pretendemos, por un lado, reflexionar acerca los movimientos sociales desde la mirada del Trabajo Social, y por otro, explorar en la producción científica que venimos haciendo las/os trabajadoras/es sociales. Para ello hemos realizado un estudio exploratorio en el que hemos indagado en la difusión de las investigaciones sobre movimientos sociales en las revistas científicas de Trabajo Social de cuatro países iberoamericanos: Argentina, España, México y Perú. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto no sólo el creciente interés por el fenómeno de estudio sino también los enfoques teóricos, o categorías de análisis, y las filiaciones institucionales de las publicaciones.

Das International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) ist ein länderübergreifendes, fortlaufendes Umfrageprogramm, das jährlich Erhebungen zu Themen durchführt, die für die Sozialwissenschaften wichtig sind. Das Programm begann 1984 mit vier Gründungsmitgliedern - Australien, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten - und ist inzwischen auf fast 50 Mitgliedsländer aus aller Welt angewachsen. Da die Umfragen auf Replikationen ausgelegt sind, können die Daten sowohl für länder- als auch für zeitübergreifende Vergleiche genutzt werden. Jedes ISSP-Modul konzentriert sich auf ein bestimmtes Thema, das in regelmäßigen Zeitabständen wiederholt wird. Details zur Durchführung der nationalen ISSP-Umfragen entnehmen Sie bitte der Dokumentation. Die vorliegende Studie konzentriert sich auf Fragen zu sozialen Beziehungen und sozialen Netzwerken.