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- Description:
- Advertisement for Sociological abstracts (SA) and Social planning/policy & development abstracts (SOPODA) databases
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Historically the development of social work in most African countries has been strongly influenced by and modelled after Western countries. This has often meant the development of social service programmes and systems that have had a traditional focus of social work (clinical, socialising, custodial, therapeutic and care-taking functions). Increasingly today, this traditional model of social work is being superseded by a model built upon human-focused or social development concepts (Osei-Hwedie, 1990). This model is based upon egalitarian principles which assume that all members of a society should have access to information, goods, services, opportunities and the decision-making process; and the assumption that there will be a special focus on the needs of disadvantaged groups. Thus, the structuring of social work activities in this model requires a corresponding reconceptualisation of education and practice. What is needed is a conceptualisation of practice that will focus on both the immediate needs of people and the larger social and economic changes necessary to prevent future individual disruption and to improve the quality of life for all (Galper, 1980). This means linking together and integrating the knowledge and skills of the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. The conceptual base of education and practice that serves to best accomplish the above is that of empowerment. Empowerment is conceptualised as the discovery of individual health and strengths and the attainment of participatory competence (Kieffer, 1984). Utilising concepts taken from motivation and action theory (White, 1959; Locke, et al, 1981), the authors develop an empowerment model for social work practice. This model encompasses five dimensions of practice: personal empowerment (competency required for taking self-direction); social empowerment (comprising society's capacity for self-direction and control of community processes and resources); educational empowerment (the development of an educational system that prepares people for both their social and work life); economic empowerment (the development of the means to earn a sufficient income to live a life of dignity and to provide for the adequate fulfillment of the requisite needs of shelter, food and clothing); and political empowerment (involvement in democratic decision-making). Social work roles inherent in this model are ones that focus on that of colleague, political ally, facilitator, advocate, and mediator.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- The present study attempts to assess the quality of reported age-sex distributions of Lesothos 1986 and 1996 censuses using conventional demographic techniques. First, the data presented in single years are examined to identify patterns of digit preference and then Whipples, Myers' and Rachis indexes are computed in order to furnish a clear picture of the magnitude of deficiencies that might have occurred. The findings show that there is a tendency to prefer even numbers and avoid odd numbers in census enumeration in Lesotho. Also, the Whipple's index declined from 115 in 1986 to 106 in 1996, while the Myers' and Rachi's indexes respectively declined from 11 and 7 in 1986 to 9 and 6. These results suggest that there are deficiencies in the Lesotho data. A closer assessment of the data is undertaken by curtailing part of the erratic fluctuations in single year age distribution via grouping the data in quinary ages and applying the age-sex accuracy index. The index yields a value of 35 for the 1986 census and 32 for the 1996 census. The findings show that, though there are some distortions in the reported age-sex distributions of Lesotho, the data are fairly accurate and point to a modest improvement in quality over the decade.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for Hans Zell Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Yochanan Wozner. People care in institutions. New York: Haworth Press, 1990
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Judy Chew. Women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. New York: Haworth Press, 1997
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This paper explores the relevance of psychology and the social and human sciences in a changing South Africa. The new South Africa embraces a liberal democratic approach to government. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is a policy document that articulates the goals of this liberal democratic society and the transformative approach to be followed to achieve it. The RDP policy document advocates massive social change and the steps that have been taken to implement the goals of the policy need to be assessed. In this paper, this has been analysed at the level of employment practices. Employment advertisements for social and human science graduates, in three national weekly newspapers, from 1976 to 1996, were investigated. The results are interpreted within a framework based on the ideas of Nickolas Rose about the role played by the discipline of psychology in a liberal democratic society.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This article examines the effects of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) on Kenyan society. A series of economic and political reforms initiated by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Kenya since 1988 and especially after 1991 have transformed many aspects of the daily life of Kenyan people. These programmes have been linked to the high rate of income inequality. inflation, unemployment, retrenchment, and so on, which have lowered living standards, especially, those relating to the material resources in the family. Furthermore, the SAPs in Kenya have been linked to the increasing deviant and crime rates, ethnic hatred and discrimination and welfare problems, especially in the areas of education and health.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Issa G. Shivji (ed). The state and the working people of Tanzania. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa