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For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy. Community-Based Interventions examines the reasons community programs tend to founder, and proposes a realistic framework for sustained success. The book's theoretical, philosophical, and political foundations begin with the importance of context, as in local knowledge and community self-definition and engagement. Innovative, often startling, approaches to planning, design, and implementation begin with the recognition that communities are not "targets" or "locations" to be "fixed," but social realities whose issues require concrete answers. The variety of examples described in these chapters demonstrate the power of community interventions in providing effective services, reducing inequities, and giving individuals greater control over their health, their environment, and, in the long run, their lives. Included in the coverage: Redefining community: the social dimensions. A new epidemiology to inform community work. The role of research in designing community interventions. The conceptual flow of a community-based project. Building autonomy through leadership from below. Relating social interventions to social justice. Attuned to the current era of health and mental health reform, Community-Based Interventions represents a major step forward in its field, and makes an inspiring text for social workers, clinical social workers, public health administrators, and community activists

For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy. Community-Based Interventions examines the reasons community programs tend to founder, and proposes a realistic framework for sustained success. The book's theoretical, philosophical, and political foundations begin with the importance of context, as in local knowledge and community self-definition and engagement. Innovative, often startling, approaches to planning, design, and implementation begin with the recognition that communities are not "targets" or "locations" to be "fixed," but social realities whose issues require concrete answers. The variety of examples described in these chapters demonstrate the power of community interventions in providing effective services, reducing inequities, and giving individuals greater control over their health, their environment, and, in the long run, their lives. Included in the coverage: Redefining community: the social dimensions. A new epidemiology to inform community work. The role of research in designing community interventions. The conceptual flow of a community-based project. Building autonomy through leadership from below. Relating social interventions to social justice. Attuned to the current era of health and mental health reform, Community-Based Interventions represents a major step forward in its field, and makes an inspiring text for social workers, clinical social workers, public health administrators, and community activists

"This social biography describes the life of Padre Uriel Molina and his role in the Sandinista Revolution, interweaving history with personal recollections and perspectives. Compiled from primary sources and extensive interviews with Molina himself, it concentrates on his worldview and the ways in which his perceptions influenced his stance on various issues"--Provided by publisher

Although postmodernism has had clear impact on literary criticism, the social and political implications of this philosophy have not been systematically investigated. Murphy's study is the first to bring a broad interdisciplinary perspective to the subject and to present postmodernism as a coherent social theory. Responding with compelling arguments to critics of postmodernism, Murphy develops a model that offers a viable alternative to traditional approaches to conceptualizing and studying social life.||In an introductory chapter, Murphy looks at the differences between modernism and postmode

In the Era of COVID-19, most research and clinical practice have been carried out through videoconferencing (Zoom meetings). This style of interaction, however, comes into conflict with community-based work, which depends heavily on local insights and community entrée. In this paper, some of the reasons for this basic conflict are examined, along with some limited remedies for the restrictions placed on community-based work by computer-mediated discourse.

Postmodernism represents an assault on the approach realists have taken to conceptualizing knowledge and order. It shows no regard for the principles and standards that have allowed societies to grow and prosper. With respect to current politics, it is believed that postmodernism discards the commitments and moral guidelines that have enabled a range of activists to intervene at appropriate times to improve the conditions of disadvantaged persons. It seems that postmodernism has undermined any valid basis for formulating a fair and equitable social contract and giving credence to postmodernism is synonymous with embracing social atomism and accepting the laissez-faire outlook on economics and other aspects of social life. Because the philosophy of laissez-faire provides no basis for order other than freely chosen contacts, which many conservatives believe are optional, social correctives have no purpose. Indeed, considering the resulting elusive nature of society, where are interventions supposed to be directed?

Postmodernism represents an assault on the approach realists have taken to conceptualizing knowledge and order. It shows no regard for the principles and standards that have allowed societies to grow and prosper. With respect to current politics, it is believed that postmodernism discards the commitments and moral guidelines that have enabled a range of activists to intervene at appropriate times to improve the conditions of disadvantaged persons. It seems that postmodernism has undermined any valid basis for formulating a fair and equitable social contract and giving credence to postmodernism is synonymous with embracing social atomism and accepting the laissez-faire outlook on economics and other aspects of social life. Because the philosophy of laissez-faire provides no basis for order other than freely chosen contacts, which many conservatives believe are optional, social correctives have no purpose. Indeed, considering the resulting elusive nature of society, where are interventions supposed to be directed? ; Straipsnyje siekiama nagrinėti postmodernios politikos sampratą. Postmodernizmas formuoluoja radikalią realizmo žinojimo ir tvarkos koncepcijų kritiką. Ši kritika nepaiso principų, kuriais grįsta pažangos idėja. Atrodytų, postmoderni politika atmeta ideologines orientacijas ir moralines taisykles, kuriomis grįsta nelygybės problemų sprendimo siekianti politika. Galima teigti, jog postmodernizmas užkerta galimybę formuluoti socialinės sutarties koncepciją, kuri grįstų teisingumo ir lygybės principus, laikosi socialinio atomizmo principų ir laissez-faire vaizdinį paverčia pagrindine ekonomikos ir kitų socialinio gyvenimo aiškinimo koncepcija. Kadangi laissez-faire filosofija tvarką aiškina kaip veikiau laisvai pasirenkamą, socialinė politika nustoja reikšmės. Turint omeny neapčiuopiamą visuomenės pobūdį, verta klausti, į ką politika turėtų būti orientuojama?

Central to this paper is the idea that the world, including the future, is in the process of being colonized. In general, what this means is that persons do not have control of their experiences. In terms supplied by Marx, they are alienated and lost in a threatening world.
To be post-colonial means that persons have gained the insight necessary to retrieve history. Rather
than enslaved by history, and thus determined a priori by social conditions, they are able to create themselves and new institutional arrangements. They are not restricted by history, and thus unable to invent the future, but can begin to rethink radically about the nature of collective identity and social integration. Only in this manner can the remnants of colonization be abandoned.
In order to counteract colonization, what is needed is more utopian thought. Contrary to what many
critics may believe, utopianism is neither irrational nor indicative of fantasy. Central to utopian thinking, instead, is a refusal to be entrapped in the traditional portrayal of social reality.

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Straipsnyje apmąstoma rinkos reikšmė šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje. Autorius laikosi tam tikros moralizuojančios pozicijos, esą rinka skatina visuotinį susvetimėjimą ir vis labiau besiplėtojantį sociumo narių išsiskaidymą. Remiamasi Karlo Marxo mintimi, esą individas rinkos sąlygomis tampa vienu iš gamybinės jėgos atomų ir todėl praranda savąją tapatybę. Pokapitalistinėmis rinkos visuomenės sąlygomis Marxo pastebėtos išnaudotojiškos tendencijos dar labiau sustiprėja. Rinka čia apibrėžiama kaip savarankiška ir autonomiškai deterministinė būtis, kuri gali būti lengvai atskirta nuo bet kokių socialinių atsitiktinumų ir nenumatytų atvejų socialiniame kontekste. Straipsnio autorius teigia, kad rinkos visuomenėje skatinama ne tik socialinė fragmentacija, visuotinis susvetimėjimas, bet ir kurstomas totalus neatsakingumas, prieštaraujantis krikščionybės dogmoms ir kristocentrizmui bei jais sekančio Emmanuelio Levino filosofinėms pažiūroms. Pažymima, kad poindustrinės gamybinės jėgos manipuliuoja individais ir kartu su jų gaminamais produktais paverčia juos ekonominiais loginiais imperatyvais, reprodukavimo aparatų varžteliais. Tokiu būdu eliminuojama bet kokia socialinio solidarumo galimybė ir įsigali "nesaikingas vartotojiškumas". Būtent tokio pobūdžio šiuolaikinis vartotojiškumas skatina sociumą deorganizuojančias jėgas ir veda link Margaret Thatcher įvardytos situacijos: ten, kur egzistuoja rinka, neegzistuoja visuomenė.